Anna's bookshelf: read
Clearly a very important book. Maybe only the second or third book I’ve read with a transgender person as the protagonist. I didn’t love the story, but having the experience of reading this book was important for me.
Usually a book this long composed of interconnected stories becomes, at some point, a little difficult for me to follow, but this was an effortless read. Lots of characters, (one Anna!) but I didn’t have any problem keeping track of them...
Stunning. Wagamese isn’t even there, the writing disappears as the story emerges. The dialogue spools out in spare clean lines; reminds me of dialogue written by Tom Drury and Cormac McCarthy.
If this was two dimensional art, it would ...
