A review by adam_armstrong_yu
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash

5.0

An unsettling book that feels like an organ in your hands, with an insidious pulse beating through its pages, rippling between the covers, shooting up the spine that sutures the pages together. What starts out as one character's descent into winning at all costs morphs into a terrifying meditation on grief and the manners in which we attempt to heal or destroy ourselves. A story about harnessing the will to live, learning to move forward with a life you don't feel in control of, ending one chapter and starting another, yet knowing there are things that we'll never be rid of, not fully. This unnerving book throttled me and did not let up until the end.