“That is what you do when you have a child, isn’t it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away the possibilities.”
You said it, lady. Though fortunately most of us don’t find ourselves trapped inside a zoo with our four year old son, hiding from gunmen and trying to shield our son from the animal and human bodies on the ground.
Set aside a few hours to read this novel on one sitting, because it won’t let you alone until you finish it. And then it will stay with you, always. It’s a beautiful rumination on parenthood, terror, love, fury, morality and violence wrapped up in a breathless thriller. The kind of book you press on your friends, demanding they not talk to you again until they’ve read it. So good.
