Status Updates From The Renovation

“Some days I owed him the world, as every child owes a parent, and other days I owed him nothing, just as every child owes a parent.” 😭

“I’d hounded each of them in turn for a bit of chitchat about Turkey — not the Turkey in the papers or on the lips of diplomats and politicians, but the Turkey of florists, taxi drivers, bookkeepers, miner, garbage collectors.” 😭

So formulaic I’m getting pissed off

“Maybe that is what we do—the children, I mean: we make our parents into portals.”

Solid 3* so far. Awkward phrasing and times and a few literary crutches used often enough for me to notice, but the story(?) is intriguing enough for me to continue. The dual timeline is well done at this point. 🇹🇷🙌

This Booker list is so surprising. Kafkaesque and I like it !

Amazing