A review by kinbote4zembla
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison

4.0

Huh. This novel, told in 536 short anecdotes and non-sequiturs, is singular. Fragmented and disjointed without being incomprehensible, Why Did I Ever documents the everyday struggles of its protagonist, Money Breton. She listens to music. She doctors scripts. She argues with her friend and her neighbour. She does some speed. She shouts at cars on the highway. She searches for her cat. But this portrait of a woman constantly on the edge of something also manages to be quite funny. Rendered in plain, spare language, Money’s sense of the world is dry and vicious.

Zippy. Sad. Good.

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