A review by leighwitz
The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso

5.0

This was my first of Sarah Manguso and I’m completely enamored. I can’t understand how such sparse and matter-of-fact prose can read so beautifully. This story of illness wasn’t a story of triumph or of grief; it was simply a record of what happened to her, which is what made it so captivating. Several lines made me pause, set the book down, and take a deep breath of knowing, but none of them were written with an air of specialty or exaggerated emotion. Definitely going to read more Sarah Manguso.