The Mezzanine

I waffled on my rating. This is a 5 star book I think, but I didn't always feel like it was a 5 star read. My review is still percolating. I need to sort out the tension between Baker's less time-dependent ideas, and those that feel a bit like flies in amber.

This is certainly a peculiar book. Or should I say footnotes collection?

I enjoyed a great amount of the mundane observations made by the protagonist, but some of them were a little over the top. I feel like this book deserves the 4 stars after simmering for some time, but we'll see.

One time I went to the store with my older brother. The cashier, a girl, asked him, “Did you find everything you need?”
He, handing her exactly what he had come for, replied, “I don't think so...”