A review by savvy999
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Moments of lush beautiful prose, but ultimately devastating in its candor and use of memory.  I have a lot more to say about the complexities of the subject matter— it’s most specific and reiterated criticism—and it’s deployment. In the end it did not feel like a love story it felt like a story of loss a permeating, unbalanced love and loss that takes a lifetime to get over. Whether or not the author meant to show the imbalances, the tilting house that young obsession and love bring is maybe not clear but I am taking from this book an understanding of the deeply felt and the skewed all in the same breath. 
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