The resisters : a novel

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published Feb. 23, 2020 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-525-65721-7
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OCLC Number:
1085575812

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(1 review)

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interesting premise, poor execution imo

I struggled with how every character seemed flat as a sheet and with about as much personality. All the voices sounded the same. I also found the viewpoint character to be an odd choice - wouldn't the daughter have been better to give us interiority instead of the bizarre choice of pigeon grams and bugging? It sounds cool when I type it, but without character depth, it was just another strange choice. All of this made the actual story hard to care about, despite it being a solid plot. Also, no one was queer, which sucked - just saying. I don't know. The whole thing felt upside down and askew, and I had to work to finish it. I recently read a short story of hers that had emotional interiority, so the way she wrote this was clearly a choice and not just her "style."