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A review by tiffanywang29
David's Story by Zoë Wicomb
4.0
3.5, 3.75?
I can't say I was engrossed in this novel, but I will be thinking for a long time to come about all the questions about memory and accuracy, tensions between narrators and authors, fictionalizing/imagining stories of those whose stories can never be told in the first person... It's really fun to watch Wicomb play with this narrative and experiment to its limits. I think that's super necessary for the stories we don't know how to tell.
I can't say I was engrossed in this novel, but I will be thinking for a long time to come about all the questions about memory and accuracy, tensions between narrators and authors, fictionalizing/imagining stories of those whose stories can never be told in the first person... It's really fun to watch Wicomb play with this narrative and experiment to its limits. I think that's super necessary for the stories we don't know how to tell.