Hello my lovely readers! This is my last book of the month and it was a strange one! Let's get into it.
SYNOPSIS
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life.
Clara, a celebrity author in desperate need of validation, believes Serene is their mother, while Dempsey, isolated and content to remain so, believes she is a con woman. As they clash over this stranger, the sisters hurtle toward an altercation that threatens their very existence, forcing them to finally confront their pasts—together.
MY THOUGHTS
This book was...odd. It's a circular meta-narrative with dysfunctional family dynamics, unreliable narrators, a multiverse and themes of suicide, abuse, alcoholism/drug use....and it all WORKS. Somehow. Oddly.
I just can't get over this novel. I love reading novels about Black people (Black women, especially) that are outside the box and this novel fits this to a T. I might have to add this book to my personal library.
This novel got a LOT of mixed reviews and I was kind of hesitant going into it, but it just goes to show, you can't go off of reviews when it comes to reading. What matters is if the plot or subject matter interests YOU. I'm glad I read this.
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