A SEPARATION
by
Katie Kitamura
She is
married to Christopher, but they have been separated for six months.
Christopher made her promise not to tell anyone, so when his mother, Isabella,
called and asked, she simply told her that she did not know where Christopher
was. As Isabella was worried about Christopher, she bought the wife a ticket to
Greece and booked her a room at the hotel where Christopher was staying. And,
she went – ostensibly to find her husband to ask him for a divorce.
I did not
like A Separation. The unending use
of commas rather than periods, and the resultant run-on sentences, drove me
crazy. The failure to use quotation marks to delineate dialogue was confusing.
Perhaps this shows that I do not appreciate the nuances of contemporary
“artistic writing,” but I found them to be distracting. In addition, I did not
enjoy the plot. Although I was initially engaged with the wife, as the book
progressed and she made what appeared to be unjustified leaps and presumptions,
I became increasingly alienated. Not only did I not enjoy this book, but my
antipathy toward A Separation
continued to grow long after I finished reading.
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