A review by jacobsite
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio

2.0

Just realized I sounded massively bitter in my old review so I'm just gonna delete me being toxic for the length of a dissertation and say that while I enjoyed a lot of the writing and structure of this novel, and the last third of the book I believe is genuinely fantastic, the plot for the vast majority of the book is tackling way too much for its own good, sometimes to the point of it being incomprehensible. This could've been a great coming of age book discussing loss and separation, but that core gets lost very easily.