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A review by valeriaperez261
Daddy by Emma Cline
funny
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Emma Cline has a talent to make you feel voyeuristic for people that are not real. This book encapsulates that sensation of people watching in public and suddenly being caught doing it. The act, Itself is not wrong, but it feels too intimate to be called out on it.
Cline writes these stories that feel that have no point in such compelling and complex ways you seriously feel like an intruder in these people’s lives. I could not for the life of me put it down. It felt awkward to read with people around me, I was reading on the train constantly looking up to make sure nobody could hear my thoughts.
The liminality of everyday life was so well explored it actually made me feel empathetic towards (fictional) men? (:0) And the underlying connotation of fatherhood was so well pulled I just 😭😭😭😭
Loved it loved it loved it. Definitely will be reading The Girls ASAP.
Remember what I said about Seven Empty Houses? About playing with the liminality of everyday life? How I thought she hadn’t really gotten quite there? That there was something lacking? Well, here’s the clean version, the completely well done version.
Cline writes these stories that feel that have no point in such compelling and complex ways you seriously feel like an intruder in these people’s lives. I could not for the life of me put it down. It felt awkward to read with people around me, I was reading on the train constantly looking up to make sure nobody could hear my thoughts.
The liminality of everyday life was so well explored it actually made me feel empathetic towards (fictional) men? (:0) And the underlying connotation of fatherhood was so well pulled I just 😭😭😭😭
Loved it loved it loved it. Definitely will be reading The Girls ASAP.
Remember what I said about Seven Empty Houses? About playing with the liminality of everyday life? How I thought she hadn’t really gotten quite there? That there was something lacking? Well, here’s the clean version, the completely well done version.