Book: Afterwards
Author: Rachel Seiffert
Published: 2007 (Pantheon)
Pages: 327
The most boring part of this story is the central romance
that comes together as a sort of “meh, why not” and floats away because of much
more interesting traumas. Not that either side knows about these actually
interesting traumas, just that there’s something the other’s not saying. Boo
fucking hoo, y’all.
But the guy was a British solider deployed to fight the IRA
with a rage problem that’s mostly under control except when he lashed out and
killed a man on his last patrol, and the girl has a weirdly close relationship
with her grandfather for how much she resents him and his own military participation
in the colonialism of Kenya.
I liked reading about those two bits, and they were spread
out nice and gradually among the modern day piffles, so I think I still want to
keep this, but it’ll be on the first to-weed list when I run out of room
(again).
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