I wanted this book to be good. I would say better, but I was so annoyed as I was reading it, I couldn’t even muster up enough. It’s perfectly well written throughout most of the novel, but I started getting my early sense of the cracks. But I started to get really annoyed. The book is a lot like a mix between Matilda and Exit West…so elements of emigre literature and statelessness and then the love and redemptive power of books. But then, but then, […]