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HOLY SHIT this book was a whirlpool of emotions and chaos. I found out about this novel from a bookclub on instagram and felt like it was an appropriate read to conclude BRAT summer. The "brat" or MC of the book is Gabriel, a writer in his 20s who just lost his father, his mom is at a care home and his gf left him. The entirety of the book is Gabriel dealing with feelings of grief in his childhood home through a plethora of uncanny strategies. He starts experiencing strange things in his home by seeing a deer-man in the garden, finding his mom's manuscript which seems to change everyday, an old VHS tape of his mother with another family, and his skin shedding like a snake.
The structure of the book was a bit novice for me in that it lacked proper literary structure. But the lack of structure and juvenile writing is what made the whole reading experience so trippy. Reading into this book felt like I was reading Gabriel's personal diary. The writing felt so raw and filled with feelings of guilt, sorrow and pain.
I found that his childhood home served as a metaphor for not only his family dynamic but also Gabriel himself. The rooms in the house each symbolized different facets of his emotional and psychological life, each room holding a piece of secret and a piece of him. Or maybe I just overanalyzed everything in the book but nonetheless this was a great literary fiction for his debut novel.
The structure of the book was a bit novice for me in that it lacked proper literary structure. But the lack of structure and juvenile writing is what made the whole reading experience so trippy. Reading into this book felt like I was reading Gabriel's personal diary. The writing felt so raw and filled with feelings of guilt, sorrow and pain.
I found that his childhood home served as a metaphor for not only his family dynamic but also Gabriel himself. The rooms in the house each symbolized different facets of his emotional and psychological life, each room holding a piece of secret and a piece of him. Or maybe I just overanalyzed everything in the book but nonetheless this was a great literary fiction for his debut novel.