Cathy Douglas's Reviews > Subdivision

I'm not reviewing many books these days, but I wanted to give this one a shout-out for anyone who's looking for a recommendation, because it just blew me away.

I don't usually like surrealist writing, but in this case weirdness has a purpose. In some ways, this book is super easy to read, because everything that happens is in the present, in one viewpoint and in chronological order. Most fiction intended for adults is full of flashbacks, multiple points of view in, projections into the future, deep introspection on the part of the narrator, etc. Not much of that here. The interest lies in how all that comes to light in a roundabout way.

Serious spoiler: (view spoiler)[It's the dreamlike consciousness of someone who's just been in a traffic accident and is hovering between life and death, and the things that go through her unconscious mind as she's dying in the hospital. (hide spoiler)]