American Delirium

American Delirium: A Novel | Betina Gonz�lez

"I respect people who identify their personal crusade early on, however they do it. (We all have one, and only one, and the sooner we figure out what it is, the better.)"

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Reggie

American Delirium: A Novel | Betina Gonz�lez

so-so

In a small Midwestern town deer have started to attack the humans. 9yo old Berenice is looking for someone to claim her now that she is sure her mother has joined the dropouts, a group of people who live in the forest and abandon their children as a way of getting back at society. There‘s Berly an elderly woman with a commune past who is now teaching old people to hunt deer at the local senior center with guns. Even though parts of this book 👇🏼

Reggie are going to come back and talk to me this book was very frustrating. She writes too tangentially for this to be cohesive. I‘m all for compact tangents but I kept having to reread whole pages because I forgot what she was writing about and what point it served. If this was bookclub I feel I would have been one of the only few who finished and I would have made a joke about how the theme might have been, Don‘t do drugs? It was less than ok. (edited) 4y

Suet624 Bummer. But love the review. 4y

Centique Such a good review 😍 4y

Reggie @Suet624 @Centique Thank you ladies! 4y

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LeafingThroughLife

American Delirium: A Novel | Betina Gonz�lez

bailed

I was excited to receive a copy of this from Henry Holt, but I could only give this about 50 pages before deciding it wasn‘t for me. I thought it was going to be quirky in an amusing way. Instead it‘s quirky in more of a...disturbing way? Close encounters of the disturbing sort with the homeless, sexualized disfigured dolls, boring philosophizing....really just strange and unpleasant reading.

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