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fleshexecutable's Reviews (65)
If I had a nickel for every time Murakami wrote a woman who was a middle-aged aspiring pianist who experienced some sort of debilitating sexual trauma that subsequently caused her to lose her talent in her prime and who eventually bonds with the bland, bookish male protagonist over their mutual intensely mentally-ill friend who inevitably disappears, never to be seen again, thus bringing them closer and causing them to develop an unnecessary and ultimately unaddressed sexual tension as a metaphor for their love of their presumably deceased best friend and eventually culminates in them going their separate ways and never seeing each other again… I’d have two nickels but the fact that it even happened twice is weird.
I wanted to like this more than I did. I love unreliable/unlikable narrators and I’d heard so many good things about Moshfegh’s writing but this just fell so flat for me. Every story just kinda felt like shock value for shock value’s sake. I might try another of her books but this one didn’t quite do it for me.
