Die, My Love

By Ariana Harwicz

Now a Major Motion Picture Man Booker International Prize 2018 FinalistIn a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999722787
• ISBN13: 9781999722784
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Charco Press
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.5" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Hard to rate

It’s hard for me to rate this book. I really enjoyed the writing style and willingness to go to the darkest places, but I also felt disappointed. I related with the narrator sometimes and sympathized with her, but I also had a strong enough distaste for her and her choices/mindset that I didn’t really feel much for the characters. She wasn’t compelling because, even though I understand she isn’t well mentally and isn’t being supported well by her family, she also isn’t trying at all to improve things. And yet she thinks she’s better than everyone else. There’s an apathetic condescension to her that made it difficult for me to care about her at all, but I did find so much that was interesting. I wonder if I was supposed to leave the book having less sympathy for the narrator than I started with. If she wasn’t so condescending, if she honestly tried to improve but failed, this would have been so compelling. Oh well.