PositiveFull Stop...a book that masterfully rearranges the novel’s elemental hierarchy, touching on themes of obligation, globalization, and place ... Dimópulos’s greatest achievement is the successful break of language from narrative time. Large portions of the book are a form of what the narrator calls a \'dreaded introspection,\' just a voice speaking from an unclearly defined location. In a lesser work, the voice would feel claustrophobic or confusing, but Dimópulos introduces enough narrative elements and keeps them skillfully in motion, the parts of the books moving around each other in a dense enough orbit. Dimópulos also successfully reorders the hierarchy of novelistic elements, putting place and voice over time ... Dimópulos’s reader must rely solely on the narrator’s voice, drawn into an uncommon space that threatens to break into chaos. A muddier narrative voice would make such a fragmented novel confusing and unnecessarily scattered. Dimópulos’s writing, however, is propulsive in its clarity and energy, creating a novel that both invites a one-session read, \'hard to put down,\' but is also dense enough to benefit from more than one go-through.
