A review by amanda_marie
Erasure by Percival Everett

challenging dark emotional funny reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The first person POV really helps sink you into the mind of Erasure, so it reads almost as a diary as the narrator comes up with jokes, reminisces, and devolves. It is at times incomprehensible without a Google search open, but that adds to the eccentricities of the narrator, for he doesn’t know how to be comprehensible anymore. It was a bit jarring to read an entire novel within a novel, and some of the asides were confusing. But the book overall covers so many topics and issues, makes fun of itself while making fun of others, and parodies a life we’re still living over 20 years post publication. 
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