Helpful Score: 2
this book was a very twisted and bizzare read. I'm not sure if I liked it or hated it. Some parts of it had me going HUH? The concept was great though.
I LOVED Kathryn Davis' book "The Thin Place," but I've had no luck with her other novels. Like "The Walking Tour" and "Versailles," I didn't feel that my understanding of the subject matter (in this case, the experience of growing up in a dysfunctional family, and the life-long scars that remain) is enhanced by Davis' chosen style, bouncing around from realism to fantasy and back again, leaving me completely baffled about what exactly is going on, and who is doing what to whom.
Just to be completely perverse, my favorite chapters where the ones in which the family dynamic is depicted through the device of a battered old dolls' house, with a crazily assorted set of dolls to create the family, and the house equipped with mis-matched furniture and accessories pillaged from other, better dolls' houses and home-made from castoffs and old trash. I loved those chapters ....
Just to be completely perverse, my favorite chapters where the ones in which the family dynamic is depicted through the device of a battered old dolls' house, with a crazily assorted set of dolls to create the family, and the house equipped with mis-matched furniture and accessories pillaged from other, better dolls' houses and home-made from castoffs and old trash. I loved those chapters ....
