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A review by uncreationmyth
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book would have absolutely rocked my shit if i had read it around the ages of 15-19. epigraphs from & references to french new wave, existentialist philosophy, virginia woolf & clarice lispector? i guarantee i would have taken this book at surface level & ended up infinitely more insufferable as a direct result of basing 80% of my personality around it, so actually it's probably for the better that i didn't.
i can see other people being annoyed by both the meandering, directionless protagonist and the at times meandering, seemingly directionless prose that veers into prose poetry. it 1000% worked for me, though. a lyrical, romanticized portrait of young womanhood fraught with ennui, existential angst & self-destructive loneliness— a tenuous existence trapped in a shape that has yet to solidify. indulgent introspection to the point of self-absorption.
side note: every single man in this book set off kill bill sirens in my brain.
smash that mf like if you too secretly fear you never actually outgrew your sad teenage girl on tumblr dot com circa the mid-2010s phase. (it's fine i'm still in my early 20s this is okay right??? *extremely mitski "class of 2013" voice* mom, am i still young??)
i can see other people being annoyed by both the meandering, directionless protagonist and the at times meandering, seemingly directionless prose that veers into prose poetry. it 1000% worked for me, though. a lyrical, romanticized portrait of young womanhood fraught with ennui, existential angst & self-destructive loneliness— a tenuous existence trapped in a shape that has yet to solidify. indulgent introspection to the point of self-absorption.
side note: every single man in this book set off kill bill sirens in my brain.
smash that mf like if you too secretly fear you never actually outgrew your sad teenage girl on tumblr dot com circa the mid-2010s phase. (it's fine i'm still in my early 20s this is okay right??? *extremely mitski "class of 2013" voice* mom, am i still young??)