chestnut_pod 's review for:

Mostly Hero by Anna Burns

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After reading Milkman, I wanted to see what other Burns I could find. Mostly Hero is a novella that more or less uses Milkman's strange stream-of-consciousness style to tell an absurdist superhero parable about violence and communication. Also an excuse for phrases like “a blood-trail resembling a post-structuralist anti-principle of traditional abstracted countercomposition.” A real Cheshire cat of a book, kind of a jumble and not the masterwork of Milkman, but definitely bizarre in the fun way.