A review by abbyandthejets
Plainwater by Anne Carson

5.0

This is my favourite book, tied perhaps with Eros the Bittersweet, that Anne Carson has written or I have read. This novel has a frank honesty that encompasses everyday living, poetry, description, and philosophy. Her work on gender, relationships (between all people and things), history, and dependency is stunning. She understands the inner workings of the psyche, and pulls so many aspects of living and death and identity in a surprisingly digestible book (this is not a critique of her other works, which are equally fantastic, only that I was able to read this one far faster and far more times than her other works). I recommend it most highly.