Wish You Were Here
“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year…” (Pink Floyd)
Just what pops up for me, with that title, at least at first. Novel was getting a certain amount of indie-bookstore push.
ensorcel v. To enchant or fascinate.
But it is topical, like pandemic memories, what we missed.
The joy of reading a novel in digital format, this one was an e–library book popped over to a kindle app, on an iPad, but the ease of accessing definitions, makes it easier to thread the literary and verbal gymkhana.
Conventional set-up, but a weirdly effective turn, two-thirds through.
Life, death, and the pandemic. Dream state, and what life is, or isn’t like in the real world, set against a partially, richly-imagined dreamscape.
Rather interesting book, well-worth a minor investment in wading through the nice language. Part allegorical, part mythic in scope, and yet, that magical quality I tend to observe and laud? Characters that I deep empathy for and with.
Good book.
