A review by patroclusbro
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
“I say the same thing to you: I don’t know if I am or am not Amparo Dávila,” she continued. “But her name reminds me of something from beyond memory.”
I closed my eyes to better listen to her.
"It comes from before. A mineral world, without a doubt. A vegetal world. It comes from the ocean, don’t you see? From a day filled with sun. From a phrase.” She lowered thevolume of her voice. “He’s going to kill himself,” she whispered.
I saw the twilight from the other end of my retinas, in some hidden chamber within my brain. I heard the phrase, and its echo. He’s going to kill himself. A strange sweetness pervaded my body."
A lyrical, short novel filled with eerie, quiet, suffocating horror.
A story about all the different types of disappearance, heartbreak, desire, the sea - and loss of identity, reality, consciousness. A main character who gets increasingly disoriented and the women who surround him (or her?). Inevitability and leaping emotions.
Something for fans of Shani Mootoo's "Polar Vortex", Sándor Márai's "Embers" and Alia Trabucco Zarán's "The Remainder".
I closed my eyes to better listen to her.
"It comes from before. A mineral world, without a doubt. A vegetal world. It comes from the ocean, don’t you see? From a day filled with sun. From a phrase.” She lowered thevolume of her voice. “He’s going to kill himself,” she whispered.
I saw the twilight from the other end of my retinas, in some hidden chamber within my brain. I heard the phrase, and its echo. He’s going to kill himself. A strange sweetness pervaded my body."
A lyrical, short novel filled with eerie, quiet, suffocating horror.
A story about all the different types of disappearance, heartbreak, desire, the sea - and loss of identity, reality, consciousness. A main character who gets increasingly disoriented and the women who surround him (or her?). Inevitability and leaping emotions.
Something for fans of Shani Mootoo's "Polar Vortex", Sándor Márai's "Embers" and Alia Trabucco Zarán's "The Remainder".