Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so it seems. She's making it in New York. She's put an experimental writer, Jeremy Miller, on the map by helping him concoct a viral internet novel. But privately, Jane feels trapped, ruled by her routines and her compulsions, caught up in an endless cycle of soothing and punishing herself. But then, tragedy strikes, and the story changes track. As the perspective shifts, so too does our image of Jane and those in her orbit as what we think we know begins to unravel.
A coolly crafty debut ... Stylish, convention-allergic ... While reiteration of the depressively cyclical is an audacious narrative strategy, it also means our girl remains chimerical; I did not soulbond ... Montague’s debut is bold and ingenious but ultimately confounding.
