A review by bookishwendy
Optic Nerve by María Gainza

4.0

This reads more like an essay collection than a novel, with each chapter intertwining a different painter with a (seemingly, at first) unrelated aspect of the narrator's life. I don't know much in the way of art history, but I enjoyed looking up the related artist/art for each chapter and contemplating tenuous thematic relationships between the "art" and "life" portions. I couldn't always wrap my head around it, but emotionally this book captured me nonetheless.