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If it were labeled more clearly what time period you were reading from I think that this book would’ve been a lot more clear and enjoyable.
Not necessarily a huge con of the book, but she kinda just breezed back in after literally experiencing the worst moments of her life there. Would that “Girl” were so head-turningly titled: It’s a misleadingly bland moniker for a film that asserts quiet confidence in its sociopolitical shading and the neon-bright impressionism of its aesthetic.Now she and her sister Evie try to gather their four siblings to go back to house for the last time as a good will gesture which eventually bring out the ugly flashbacks of their past hit their faces harsher than they imagine.
Determined not to let what happened to her stop her succeeding in life, yet unable to stop the psychological damage that come with an experience. Instead of a regular life growing up, Lex and her five siblings grew up as prisoners of two sadistic parents who kept them locked in and under awful conditions.While I appreciated how this touched on how trauma manifests itself in various forms, I would like to have seen this explored in more depth. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings.
And when you've lived under a system of extreme physical and psychological torture, what you carry is so large and heavy. That was something I wanted to think about in terms of Lex, her resilience and intelligence in the face of a devastating experience. That won’t hinder Onashile’s Sundance competition premiere from making its mark at further festivals, and with select indie distributors; a warm homecoming awaits when its opens next month’s Glasgow fest. a recruitment officer representing four Russell Group universities asked an undercover reporter for the Sunday Times. After three months, she had the bones of the novel, but it would take another year to finish the first draft of Girl A, during which time she started a new job as a lawyer for Google.Luckily for me, I’m into true crime, memoirs and character driven books, all of which describe this much better than the thriller/suspense/mystery tags I’ve seen thrown around. Yes he was young but he definitely wasn’t innocent and avoided nearly everything the others suffered. Dean was on a work trip for Google in India, in a taxi in a rural area with no reception, when her agent started trying to get in touch to tell her the news. As children, Lex and her siblings had watched their parents cover the clocks and windows of the house, a disorienting abuse technique that leaves her grasp on time shaky into adulthood. My attention flagged at a few points in the present day narrative but I was gripped by the flashbacks.
Abigail Dean fa qualcosa che ho apprezzato molto: la storia agghiacciante, aberrante, sconvolgente, come titolerebbe la stampa, l’orrore, la violenza, l segregazione, le botte, le catene, le privazioni, sono raccontate senza indulgenza, né insistenza, né morbosità. It’s a poignant parental crisis, though as a dramatic conflict, it doesn’t quite power “Girl” through a wandering second half in which characters’ incremental shifts in regard and outlook stand in for major incident. note to the author: if we're going to jump timelines (which is one of my all time favourite storytelling techniques) can we possibly not do that literally every other paragraph? If this wasn’t annoying enough, the story of Lex, a survivor of abuse, who travels around England in an effort to get approval from her estranged siblings to convert the house they grew up in into a museum was extremely repetitive and boring. I have this mean-minded habit of reading one extremely-hyped modern book per year – Normal People, Gone Girl, Eleanor Oliphant is Great Thank You – in the same spirit that a spider invites a big juicy fly into his home.The first 60% of what I read wasn't horrible, but I saw that I was skimming over a lot of the characters' inner monologues, and that's when I knew it wasn't good for me. As a child, Dean wrote all the time, getting into fan fiction as a teenager (Final Fantasy stuff, she admits – she was a big gamer at the time).
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