A review by robynryle
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber

Recommended to me by my friend Jenny, I found one of the premises of this book a little hard to swallow, and was glad it turned out not to be true in the end. I guess maybe she was aiming for more novel than mystery, as it fell short of many of the basic mystery type requirements. There were times when I got really tired of hearing all about the internal state of the narrator. You got the vague sense that you're supposed to believe something's wrong with her, but it was never clear to me what. For spending so much time inside her brain, I had little insight into what she was like or much feeling of identification with her. Maybe she's supposed to be weird, but that weird? Little disappointing.