moraggunn

"This is an excellent coming-of-age novel set amid some very bleak circumstances. It would be unbearable if it were not—above all else—a story of love between siblings. It illustrates how child sexual abuse desecrates childhoods, torpedoes a family..." Permalink

"I am bewildered by positive reviews here. I made it to 30% and abandoned it on account of the wooden, cliché-riddled writing; zero character development; all the telling and no showing; bad, bloated metaphors… you get where I’m going with this. I ..." Permalink

"I loved this and am so impressed that it's a debut novel. It is very neurotically, self-centredly New York in well-observed ways that convey a real intimacy with the micro-culture and made me think of Bonfire of the Vanities. Brodesser-Akner digs ..." Permalink