A review by sdbecque
Hotel by Joanna Walsh

3.0

I discovered the Object Lessons series, got this one from the library and was really excited to read it. I figured it would be a mini-cultural history of the hotel (something about Route 66, motels, and Howard Johnson) and this was not that. It's lovely. But it's more of thought experiment, complete with a possible "constructed I" narrator, and I wasn't in the right place to read it and take it in. Honestly, I was looking for Hotel like cultural history information for my dissertation, so on this point your mileage may vary.