A review by nappower
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali

4.0

i quite enjoyed this - maybe i'm quite enjoying everything that isn't a law textbook these days. ha! monica ali handles the protagonist's unravelling so subtly that you're eventually a talking heads lyrics asking yourself, well, how did i get here? ... in a weird way too, especially given ali's straightforward, everyday style, i never felt sympathy for characters themselves, but perhaps what they represented socially/culturally etc. long read populated by people i wouldn't want to know in real life, but hey, that's what books can do. yay.