A novel exploring free will, memory, faith, and constructions of reality and the self, following a woman faced with the question of whether her marriage is abusive, and the life-altering decision of ending it.
Deft ... Halász’s terse and unsparing syntax mirrors her protagonist’s disorientation, splicing together different conversations and memories in the span of a paragraph ... The novel dramatizes the slow coming back to consciousness of a woman so abused she has forgotten the basic functions of living.
