Rating: 3 out of 5

This felt very clever. Maybe too clever for me. Full of literary references. Lovely illustrations. An interesting storytelling mechanism linking various aspects of her life and her relation with her father together. But left me a bit cold. I couldn’t empathise with any of the family. Which sends a shame

Highlighted passage:

It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they’re not. Though perhaps Camus’ definition of the absurd - that the universe is irrational and human life meaningless - applies here as well

Originally posted to my Goodreads account