PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewRichard Flanagan’s new novel approaches this shift in the zeitgeist by taking us back to the early ’90s and focusing on a time when out-and-out liars could still surprise us ... While Heidl as a character is deeply compelling, and Flanagan writes with acute sensitivity...for a long stretch the story idles, taking us through the circular routine of Kif’s daily slog ... Like so much autobiography, First Person is about nostalgia, for a lost age when once we could be horrified by outright lies, use the word \'evil\' to describe it and fear what might follow our acceptance of it.
