A review by annieks
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus

5.0

This book is about a 10-year-old fisherman's daughter in the 1980s whose mother attempts suicide and is taken away to hospital. Doesn't sound that cheery, but I absolutely adored this. Marcus is a poet and it shows in her gorgeous, fractured, onomatopoeic prose as she puts us into the mind of a damaged child who is making stories to protect herself from the harsh reality of life. Stunning.