This is the first novel by the novelist Max Porter, who was recently nominated for the Booker Prize for his second novel Lanny. I thought he should have made the short list and displaced at least one of the winners. Anyway, this book has some similarities to that book in that it’s quite short (around 100 pages) and involves some elements of magical realism or fantasy or at least a quite pronounced metaphorical element, and multiple narrative voices. You can gather from the title that we […]
Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
