"He wants to hold her in the moonlight."I can't believe that a novel nominated for the National Book Award could contain that chunk of ham in the first ten pages.
I also can't believe that I wanted to keep reading past the first ten pages of a novel with that chunk and this one "The world can crush you with its beauty" amongst others but well I did. As you know I'm really comitted to those first 10 pages.
What's the story so far? Well it's complicated, but it boils down to the pursuit of infidelity by a youngish White lawyer terrified of Black people named DANIEL with a woman who doesn't know she's being pursued named IRIS. Oh, and she just happens to be Black.
My reader instincts tell me that the chances are pretty good that the world does indeed use its beauty boot to crush DANIEL like a Ritz cracker under an elephant. Whether or not this is something you'll want to invest time and energy in discovering is another matter. I'll probably give this one a longer look seeing as that I'm already at page 20.
God, I'm such a sucker for tragic romance.
1 comment:
There is a kind of loveliness in romantic tragedy. Great blog.
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