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Margaret Holloway
Margaret Holloway
4.9
This is a novel that trusts its reader. Increasingly rare.

Four narratives, each one undermining and rewriting the last. Diaz is doing something technically ambitious here and the ambition is fully realised — which is not always the case. The way each successive section re-contextualises what came before rewards close reading and patience. I read the final section twice. What it has to say about wealth, power, and who controls the stories we tell about both is never stated directly, which is exactly right.

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