genre: contemporary fiction
Our narrator is an actress, a woman who has made a name for herself both on stage and screen. The play she's in and the young man who has come to ask her about it will set the stage, as it were, for a book in two acts that, frankly, went way over my head, maybe. It's Meta, I can see that now, but in the reading I was NOT pulled in. The main character made no sense to me - her behavior and emotions didn't track with how I feel like people generally show up in the world. She has essentially no sympathetic qualities and so after a while, she just made me mad. This feels like a book for people who want to feel like they are talking intelligently about art and performance. Maybe I'm not one of those people?
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