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A review by fonkun
Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford
4.0
“But lately I have been wondering about the constant demand for stories, for complex lives to be packaged into neatly crafted and comprehensible narratives, ideally with a triumphant overcoming. Everything—advertisements, corporate biographies, mission statements, juice boxes—is personal narrative now, but flattened, far removed from the reality of living in the face of loss. And I wonder if there is a place in our world for the delicate, the quiet, the contradictory, the messy part of being.”
Through stream of consciousness writing, FRIENDS & DARK SHAPES captures a year in the life of the unnamed narrator who is in the midst of forming her adult identity. Expect vignettes of a period of uncertainty and instability, a period where everything is up in the air.
The book begins with the unnamed narrator moving into a share house with three other people (two friends, one friend of a friend) following her father's death. Since the book is less concerned with romantic relationships, leaving room for other issues to be explored, it's my favorite millennial novel of the year.
Full review on Instagram @movedbyprose
Through stream of consciousness writing, FRIENDS & DARK SHAPES captures a year in the life of the unnamed narrator who is in the midst of forming her adult identity. Expect vignettes of a period of uncertainty and instability, a period where everything is up in the air.
The book begins with the unnamed narrator moving into a share house with three other people (two friends, one friend of a friend) following her father's death. Since the book is less concerned with romantic relationships, leaving room for other issues to be explored, it's my favorite millennial novel of the year.
Full review on Instagram @movedbyprose