A review by fishsauce
The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven

4.0

Perhaps the best thing I've read about obsessive love, if only because Noa Weber's love for Alek is not just felt, it is thought and understood, the obsession acknowledged and weaved deliberately into the fabric of her life rather than dismissed or reviled or 'worked on' in some way. For every moment where Noa looks pathetic for loving so undeserving a man as Alek with such blind intensity, there are a dozen that make her look triumphant and wise.

Hareven rambles a bit, and the book has a tendency to slide too far into the abstract for too long, but for all that a remarkable achievement.