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A review by lindsrobking
What We Both Know by Fawn Parker
5.0
4.5
I started What We Both Know adoring it and telling everyone I knew that it was giving me hope for contemporary fiction. That's not so far from the truth after reaching the end, but the middle-end section became repetitive in the rumination and there were some choices that the jury is still out on, such as the narrator choking a wounded dog out of its misery. Was this parallel to her ushering her father into oblivion? Or, was this just... there? Anyway, we all make *choices*. The strongest bits of WWBK is its characters' odd n' knotty relationship dynamics, and its unique questions about navigating literary overlords and bad dads post #metoo.
I started What We Both Know adoring it and telling everyone I knew that it was giving me hope for contemporary fiction. That's not so far from the truth after reaching the end, but the middle-end section became repetitive in the rumination and there were some choices that the jury is still out on, such as the narrator choking a wounded dog out of its misery. Was this parallel to her ushering her father into oblivion? Or, was this just... there? Anyway, we all make *choices*. The strongest bits of WWBK is its characters' odd n' knotty relationship dynamics, and its unique questions about navigating literary overlords and bad dads post #metoo.