Comment

Mar 26, 2017sgcf rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I love A-M MacDonald’s writing style which humorously balances tragedy and daily routine, and evokes so much of the protagonist’s world in a phrase …“a scintillating sort of pain like a vampire wakened at noon”. Not a simile that would have occurred to me, but it elaborates greatly on the character’s life. The story itself explores the mind’s split between the past and the present. Many times exist concurrently, with the protagonist’s emotional flashbacks to previous traumas and her fear of continuing it forward with her own children. There's plenty about the muddle of family and memories and self-discovery. I appreciated her look at life through both ends of the telescope …“you can’t know when you’re twenty-three which friends will be there for the duration”.