A review by bearsister
Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller
Did not finish book.
sick of litfic that's like "an intimate portrait of a family...they might seem good and upstanding on the outside, but it turns out they kind of resent their disabled child and the father gets horny for their kid's teacher...truly absolute clarity into the private worlds of people"
but don't worry, this one also has a narrator who spends a while describing how hard it was to rape his 14 year old wife in Paris in the 1700's.
sex isn't shocking, and neither is people being horny. it feels like such a cheap trick to try to foster intimacy between the reader and a flat character by describing their lust for random people, or like, the swiftness with which he enters his wife.
but don't worry, this one also has a narrator who spends a while describing how hard it was to rape his 14 year old wife in Paris in the 1700's.
sex isn't shocking, and neither is people being horny. it feels like such a cheap trick to try to foster intimacy between the reader and a flat character by describing their lust for random people, or like, the swiftness with which he enters his wife.