i_masad's review
5.0
Read it, read it, read it. Montgomery's sentences are delicious even as the narratives and people she turns over in her writerly hands are sometimes painful, full of ambiguities and apparent contradictions that sit side by side in a space of but/and/also. A parent can be both harsh and loving, can make a person feel like not enough and like everything, can change over the course of years and hardships and needs and wants. A marriage can slide through dark and damp caverns of ache and come out the other side with an ember still hot enough to blow gently back into flame. The world is cruel and kind, the forces of nature both relentless and restorative. Montgomery sits firmly in that space of halfways and gently allows herself and her readers to acknowledge that the between is perhaps the most permanent place we'll end up.
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