A review by michaeldonovan
Remainder by Tom McCarthy

3.0

This novel greatly confuses me in no small part because I have no clue how I should respond to it. While McCarthy’s prose has moments of excellence, I don’t know what he was trying to achieve with it. Why does this story matter in the slightest? Maybe I’m expecting too much from it, or maybe there’s some great big meta-commentary on the nature of reality that I’m missing here. But I don’t think McCarthy is saying anything exceptionally unique, and I don’t think he’s saying it an exceptionally unique way, either.