Author: Steven Galloway
Another book club choice (K's). I read this when it first came out and was hoping that I hadn't confused the novel with another one. I so wanted it to be the one with the water gathering and street crossing and was delighted to find that it was. Something about those simple acts resonated so strongly.
This time through I was aware of how much narrative distance I felt, that the author kept the reader emotionally apart from the events, in part because of the characters methods of dealing with their reality. Generally that kind of distance annoys me, but in this book it worked well, and served as a coping device.
One of the more engaged discussions came out of this, or my expectations of book talk at book club have adjusted.
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