Quinn’s Reviews > A Little Life > Status Update

… this book. No words. I both love and hate it. I need to finish it because reading it is so devastating.

‘He spoke with his parents in Swedish, and it wasn’t until many years later when a Swedish director he was working with pointed out how affectless his voice became when he switched into the language, that he recognized that he had unconsciously learned to adopt a certain tone when he talked to his parents, one emotionless and blunt, that was meant to echo their own.’