A review by hongjoongie
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

challenging dark funny reflective tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What made us sad, and guilty of our sadness, what pit us in this battle against ourselves? And why couldn't we release the way some did, and say, yes, well, depression is a medical condition, l'm just wired a little poorly, I've got an illness I need to take care of […] Perhaps it was this idea of self-expression and this thought that if we were fully to release this sadness, or if we were to alter it too much-if we were to give up all the obsessions and anxieties that caused us pain-then we would become a kind of person we disdained, some one content with an abstract idea of the littleness of their lives.