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The writing, ultimately though, is beautiful. I think maybe it’s because the narrator character is quite realistic: many of the grad students I’ve met are exhausting in this way - talking kind of “above” anyone else around them and relating too much of their life to what they are writing about, specifically, which is also perhaps why I have changed my mind (many times) about doing a master’s degree.

It felt like a novel that I would have had to read for a class, that I would have gladly done and discussed in a classroom, but it was difficult for me to keep coming back to it whenever I put it down. This book took me a long time to read (and even longer to write about), because it wasn’t really my cup of tea. The reader learns about the narrator really only through how they describe each woman - Selah, Yara, and Odalys - and their ever-changing thesis.įrom the Goodreads description: “By effortlessly telling this short, intense tale in the voice of an unnamed, ungendered (and brilliantly unreliable) narrator, Dionne Brand makes a bold statement not only about love and personhood, but about race and gender–and what can and cannot be articulated in prose when the forces that inhabit the space between words are greater than words themselves.” They describe their experience with trying to complete this opus through describing three lovers that they have throughout their life in academia, how different each woman is, and each relationship in great detail. The story follows, and is told by, a nameless narrator, who is in the midst of writing their thesis. The fine folks who run Glass Bookshop are also just too charming not to want to support them. I’m trying to read more Canadian literature (yes, even after reading REFUSE) and figured - why not just dive right in?

I heard professor Brand speak and then felt compelled to pick up one of her pieces. Bought o r borrowed? Bought from Glass Bookshop at the 2019 Kriesel Lecture after getting to hear professor Brand’s lecture.