A review by jeslaine
Alligator by Lisa Moore

4.0

This book is full of beautiful prose and characters that are full of vibrancy. I loved the style; the way it bounced back and forth through memories and moments the way your mind runs off on a tangent when you are thinking of something. I might have preferred the book to have 1 or 2 less characters and more of a focus on the people who are in it from the beginning but it seemed that the more I read about some of them, the less I knew about their characters. People became defined by sets of actions, and like narrative of the film that the character Madeleine is making, they all seem to become caricatures of a certain aesthetic instead of real people. It is the tiny moments in their lives described with precision and simile that really stand out in this book; a hand on someone's arm, the way a sales girl can sometimes make you desire something you don't like and don't need. These things are its strongest moments and make it a definite worthwhile read.