Katie McAlister’s Reviews > The Secret History > Status Update

“White sky. Trees fading at the skyline, the mountains gone…I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew…an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness around them.”

“All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I’d ever seen began to pop into my mind— the windowless room, the harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived.”