A review by annettefunnycello
The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball

5.0

Extraordinary and important. Jesse Ball's genius lies in making the everyday a simulacrum for the absence of morality and conscience. The discomfort I felt in the first chapter had to do with wondering what I was reading, what time period, what form, what the characters were meant to represent, and eased during the transition through the divers' game (story within the story) to the other side. And because Jesse Ball is a brilliant writer, this was done swiftly, passing through the liminal space in the protection/form of a "novel". Some novel. It's an eyes-wide-open commentary on who we are and what we are, and what may become of us. Redemption is here, too, if we choose it.