PositiveFull StopCrudo, Laing’s first novel...isn’t slow, or overly deliberate, and it doesn’t always feel planned out – but then, neither does the time in which we’re living. Isn’t that what everyone says? It feels experimental... It is on these latter points that Crudo is most affecting, and also most frustrating. Laing is eloquent and incisive on the essential strangeness of contemporary middle/upper-middle/upper-class life in the Western world.
