RaveThe London Magazine (UK)What emerges in her memoir is the complex relationship between two realities ... Thinking, Müller concludes, must then be ‘an actual place,’ perhaps an ‘overly long street’ or an ‘unfamiliar room’. But the village as small as a thimble on the edge of the world is not a place for just any thinking; it is a place where thinking must do gymnastics. We cannot escape the image of Müller looking back on her village, both as a child standing in the fields and an adult casting her eye East, in this memoir. She is thinking where she shouldn’t; she is thinking where she must.
