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A review by emudds
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
such a good tense adventure you get taken on in this book, and with plenty of genuinely scary moments to satisfy the spook craving. i love winnie's journey, starting from a poorly defined sense of being lost upon arrival in saigon to contextualizing out of body experiences to feel in her body again, and i love how you feel her sadness and binh's anger release by the end of the novel. by far my favorite read of the year so far.
quotes i loved:
-"she assumed that one day she would fill all of this space. that her life here would provide things worth keeping. that she herself would become someone worthy of being kept."
-"she had brought with her a passport, two sets of clean clothes, and her own flesh. all the rest she would acquire."
-"winnie told herself that the uneasy fluttering she still felt in her stomach was just the sensation of her old roots finally starting to come loose."
"'the wrongness in me, i'm not sure whether it's all from that night at the club, or if it started when i first came here, or if it started before then. did i break, or was i broken from the beginning?' 'listen to me, winnie, no part of you is wrong.'"
-"my love, you know so many ghosts, but you cannot know mine"
quotes i loved:
-"she assumed that one day she would fill all of this space. that her life here would provide things worth keeping. that she herself would become someone worthy of being kept."
-"she had brought with her a passport, two sets of clean clothes, and her own flesh. all the rest she would acquire."
-"winnie told herself that the uneasy fluttering she still felt in her stomach was just the sensation of her old roots finally starting to come loose."
"'the wrongness in me, i'm not sure whether it's all from that night at the club, or if it started when i first came here, or if it started before then. did i break, or was i broken from the beginning?' 'listen to me, winnie, no part of you is wrong.'"
-"my love, you know so many ghosts, but you cannot know mine"
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Eating disorder
Moderate: Sexual violence and Animal death