A review by jiscoo
Intimacies, by Katie Kitamura

dark reflective tense

3.5

a really engaging, tautly narrated book. thematically (particularly re: meditations on language and translation) and in terms of character dynamics, it reminded me a lot of naoise dolan's exciting times. the characters and their relationships felt real and compelling, if a little underutilized in some cases. this is a book I want to reread--I can't help feeling like there were a few chekhov's guns that never went off, though that may be a stylistic choice.

but good god, the comma splices. approximately every third sentence contains a comma splice, and it was constantly so distracting. I sincerely hope that was intentional (though I can't imagine why) because if not,,, the editor has some explaining to do