Status Updates From Aut-Aut

don’t know how to give a star rating here when i didn’t feel compelled by the narrative arch -had to put it down for a bit as immaturity is tolerable in selected doses- but piercing, innovative and intellectually curious (thank you, american ballet theater, for advertising onegin this summer enough to prime & pique interest). elif batuman wields a sharp pen, in the best way.

figured out that the idiot is technically the first book. oops.