monkeelino 's review for:

The Dig by Cynan Jones

4.0

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Poetically brutal. This is such a masculine landscape where the lines between animal and people blur, where pain and grief simply get ground into the pulp that is daily survival. One man attempts to nurture animal life while dealing with human death. The other seems to foster animal death, which seems like such a savage way of life. Rich. Visceral. At times, throat-closing. Jones weaves a fascinatingly touching story while simultaneously repelling the reader with scenes of such stark violence. Disturbingly lyrical.
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WORDS I LEARNED WHILE READING THIS BOOK:
aubergine | sett | ogham