![]() Is this a really clever narrative coup, or a gimmick? I’m going with the former for now. Rosemary has chosen, until now, to omit the fact that the sister she had grown up with until the age of five, the one who has so mysteriously disappeared, is a chimpanzee. But the information we get on page 77 shows us that it isn’t only memory that makes selections. She’s had Rosemary, her narrator, make so many references to the unreliability of her own memory that I assumed it would be the main thing. ![]() And then Fowler drops in such a new and unexpected element we’re suddenly somewhere else entirely. So far, I thought at the end of Part 1, so Jonathan Franzen. She’s got everything in here, from the usual family dysfunctions, the usual anxiety about who is a success and who is the loser, the charismatic interloper disturbing the previously unruffled surface of the life the main character has done her best to construct. ![]()
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