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abbeyreads13's review
5.0
Gorgeous short story, so happy I found this little book. It is a little unsettling but so grief stricken and emotional
usedtotheweather's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
3.0
Short stories are challenging for me--their rhythm and arc are unexpected, tightly wound but often full of empty spaces that in a longer work are filled with characterization, thematic development, or plot. This one depends on the gaps in relationships, in parent/child, husband/wife, lover/exlover to be slowly inexorably bridged, as the second sentence puts it. This is the third book I've read recently that deals with dementia (previously: Where You Come From, and The Swimmers.
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