#REVIEWS 1
I started at the ending with Kelley, like (to use the popular comp for this book) starting at Finnegan’s Wake without touching Ulysses let alone Dubliners or Portrait. This is a wild novel about being black Americans in a postmodern Europe, and its one I had to let wash over me at various points. In terms of experimental deconstruction of language, it isn’t impenetrable per se, as Kelley dissolves language in terms of phonetics, but it still forces you to enunciate. Excited to weave my way through Kelley’s other novels now that they are all easily available.
# Review 2
I could not finish this book, because I could not get involved with the opening characters. Then the author changed style, and I could not understand the lingo he used. This is the second novel William Melvin Kelley wrote, and it may be brilliant, as wonder-ful as his first novel. I just could not get it. Tried reading it again and did finish it. I still don’t understand half of it, but I liked the parts I did understand.
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