A review by andforgotten
Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé

There are so many interesting thoughts and concepts in Terroir, and Sajé is surely a fascinating woman, but reading these essays felt like chasing crumbs on a carpet or trying to follow stars in the night sky — too many interesting thoughts but not enough cohesion across the book, no real thread to follow, jumping around rather wildly. It reads a bit like scattered jounalling, notes not yet crafted into a coherent whole, and perhaps the long gestation time of the collection contributed to that effect. As a result, I felt rather let down; I wanted to like it more than I did.