A review by jillpadams
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

4.0

I don't even know how this ended up in my queue -- maybe from browsing at Barnes and Noble at some point? Glad it did, however. For much of the beginning of the book, I felt disoriented -- as though I had stepped into the story 10 minutes late and missed a critical beginning sequence that would explain the current lay of the land. I felt also for the beginning of the book that he was a bit much in love with the technicalities of grammar, to pull off a novel.

But you know what? I don't care. His prose is beautiful. He loves language in a way that I love language, and he loves the canvas of people in New York. He paints a picture of my home that I can really connect with, and I loved this book. It was a pleasure to read.