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A review by theobviousmystery
Will Williams by Namwali Serpell
3.0
Its truly magical how the combination of common materials such as glass, tin and silver create portals that bend reality and bring forth your reflection and its very own pocket dimension. Our reflection that lives in the mirror may be the only being in this universe to know your deepest darkest secrets.
Yet it sits there, a silent companion, a creature who's reality is entirely dependent on you. The only companion who can show you as how others see us. Our doppelganger.
Yet, it unnerves me to think that though we can view our doppelganger, what if one day we hear them as well. Then another thought occurred to me. The voice in your head. That tiny voice that only you can hear. What if it wasn't yours?
Will Williams is a short story authored by Namwali Serpell as a part of Amazon Disorder series. It is a unique retelling of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that goes by the name William Wilson. The book follows the story of an underprivileged African American man who is haunted by a supposed doppelganger.
The narrative, set in first person view, helps us view the story through the eyes of Will and dictates how Will's doppelganger tries to ruin him whenever Will tries to get his life back on track. You are shown, through a window, true psychological horror as the protagonist confronts and faces his adversary through multiple instances that occur through out the book.
The story too is open to multiple interpretations, as the events trigger multiple crossroads and threads to unravel that question Will's sanity or even the existence of his double.
With an elegant but graphic writing, Serpell does justice to the Disorder series and she pitches us head first into a theme park that only allows you out when you're done with all the rides!
This is my second book from the Disorder series, the first being The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee.
Yet it sits there, a silent companion, a creature who's reality is entirely dependent on you. The only companion who can show you as how others see us. Our doppelganger.
Yet, it unnerves me to think that though we can view our doppelganger, what if one day we hear them as well. Then another thought occurred to me. The voice in your head. That tiny voice that only you can hear. What if it wasn't yours?
Will Williams is a short story authored by Namwali Serpell as a part of Amazon Disorder series. It is a unique retelling of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that goes by the name William Wilson. The book follows the story of an underprivileged African American man who is haunted by a supposed doppelganger.
The narrative, set in first person view, helps us view the story through the eyes of Will and dictates how Will's doppelganger tries to ruin him whenever Will tries to get his life back on track. You are shown, through a window, true psychological horror as the protagonist confronts and faces his adversary through multiple instances that occur through out the book.
The story too is open to multiple interpretations, as the events trigger multiple crossroads and threads to unravel that question Will's sanity or even the existence of his double.
With an elegant but graphic writing, Serpell does justice to the Disorder series and she pitches us head first into a theme park that only allows you out when you're done with all the rides!
This is my second book from the Disorder series, the first being The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee.