A review by jaclyncrupi
Lioness by Emily Perkins

4.0

I really, really, really enjoyed this book of female rage, family empire, wealth, consumption and unravelling. It’s Lioness by Emily Perkins, a wonderful author from New Zealand. It was so much weirder than I expected and in the best way possible (until it pushed it just a little tiny bit too far). I was under its spell though and if I was the kind of reader who underlined sentences I might just have done that. I love novels like this – ones that reveal aspects of being alive and being a good person and an equally terrible person that you grapple with but can’t fully articulate.