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This small but perfectly-formed book is a simple story of girl meets boy and all the usual things that follow. But it’s told in an unusual way so that I sometimes felt as if I was inside the main character.<\/p>\nThis small but perfectly-formed book is a simple story of girl meets boy and all the usual things that follow. But it’s told in an unusual way so that I sometimes felt as if I was inside the main character.<\/p>\n
The viewpoint changes around a bit, and the tone varies from personal to almost clinical at times. But even so, there is so much insight here, like this heart-rending evocation of the isolation of a new mother whose partner is away during the day:<\/p>\n
What did you do today, you’d say when you got home from work, and I’d try my best to craft an anecdote for you out of nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s not always the big events that have a big effect: sometimes the smallest thing can make us happy or sad. Life is like that, and so is this book.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This small but perfectly-formed book is a simple story of girl meets boy and all the usual things that follow. But it’s told in an unusual way so that I sometimes felt as if I was inside the main character. … Continue reading