The book is very well written with lyrical and clever prose. The pacing is super interesting and unusual, so it takes a minute to get used to. It's not very action heavy, and most everything is implied, which creates some tension and a sense of foreboding throughout the novel without the characters or narrator really saying anything.
I found myself constantly trying to draw connections and figure out how things were related between the past and present storylines. This book very much lends itself to analysis and seems to be asking the reader to draw startling conclusions about what it means to be alive. The implied and explicit statements are about human life, civilization, time, and whether “survival is inadequate”. Mandel plays with these ideas by illustrating the suddenness and sometimes meaninglessness of death and the circle of life.
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Crystal CarneyAs I engage with material, whether reading, writing, or revising, I strive for clarity and immersion. Archives
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