Tim Combes’s Reviews > The Story of a New Name > Status Update

“That people, even more than things, lost their boundaries and overflowed into shapelessness is what most frightened Lila in the course of her life.”

“My life forces me to imagine what [Lila’s] would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I’ve uttered, in which there’s often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers”