A Separation

A Separation

2017 • 241 pages

Ratings12

Average rating2.6

15

Meh. An unnamed narrator is so passive that she lets her estranged husband tell her not to tell anyone they're separated. The she lets her mother in law send her to Greece to track the husband down because he is not answering his mother's phone calls and she feels she can't break her word not to tell her husband's mother that they are separated.

The narrator also tends to imagine what is going on in the minds of the people she observes and assume that she imagined correctly.

The narrative is written with commas in many places where there should be periods, which I found distracting.

Finally, the blurbs I've seen for this book make it sound like a thriller or a suspense story. Don't be fooled. It's not.

December 6, 2017