A review by karenaparker
Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

2.0

This one wasn't for me, and I wanted it to be. I wanted The fable to bleed into reality a bit more, and I wanted the main character to experience that world by losing himself in it. According to the back cover copy, it's a "poetic fable" that "[reminds] us that the boundaries of truth have never been clear cut," but I didn't get that from this book. It felt like, to me, that the truth is an arrangement of facts more so than a boundary-less experience.

Put another way, I look forward to reading more of Parkes' work, but this one didn't go hard enough for me in terms of reality-bending aspects.