A review by lindseyloo92
Costalegre: A Novel Inspired by Peggy Guggenheim and Her Daughter by Courtney Maum

2.0

Make no mistake, Courtney Malm writes beautiful, evocative poetry that will stay with you for a long time after reading…but as a novel, I’m not sure that it really works. The characters feel flat, the plot is disjointed, and neither the setting nor the events of WWII or even the artistic movements referenced are fleshed out well. This may have benefited from being a longer book. As it is, I cared very little about any of these characters and that’s a downer because I think the premise and setting has a lot of potential.