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A review by nolan00
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
5.0
This book's beauty lies in it's writing, lyrical almost, and - to me - this retelling of Oedipus Rex is more iconic than the source material. Striped with themes of dementia and tinged with loss at every turn, "Everything Under" was one of the single most jarring books I've ever read.
The first chapter of my copy is full of underlined phrases and words, and most of my margins are annotated within an inch of their life. I laughed, I cried, and I grieved not only the narrator's mother's memory but also my own grandmother's. The echoes of dementia in the writing were so familiar with was painful, the disease taking my own grandmother's life a few years ago.
5/5 - and I wholly recommend for those wanting to experience loss and cry like it - whatever "it" for you is - happened hours ago.
The first chapter of my copy is full of underlined phrases and words, and most of my margins are annotated within an inch of their life. I laughed, I cried, and I grieved not only the narrator's mother's memory but also my own grandmother's. The echoes of dementia in the writing were so familiar with was painful, the disease taking my own grandmother's life a few years ago.
5/5 - and I wholly recommend for those wanting to experience loss and cry like it - whatever "it" for you is - happened hours ago.