A review by kristen_eden
The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball

5.0

The writing style isn't quite my fave, but WOW this book. Short and simple, but not easy. The last chapter is like a gut punch. Well. Each chapter is a gut punch; it builds and builds; it's an ugly and exact portrait of our society: "There is a permanent sickness in my stomach. It is a revulsion and it is a disgust, and it is a disgust at who I am and have been - who you are - who we are together - who everyone together becomes in this day and age out on the pavement... We are maintained by a violence so complete, it is like air."