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The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
4.5
challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Love a short book. Despite the incredibly upsetting and disturbing premise, couldn’t tear my eyes away, which probably makes me similar to several characters in the book. Reading this book was like picking a scab and watching blood well up. Who hasn’t, in the early parenthood sleep-deprived haze, imagined all the terrible things that could happen to their child? This novella brings one such scenario to life in economical and efficient prose. 

The pandemic setting (sometimes a turn-off) worked well to complement the stark and isolating nature of the family’s grief. 
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