Sarah Kay’s Reviews > The Renovation: A Novel > Status Update

“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.” 😭

“What do people injured by the past want? Relics and monuments of their pain? Some erasing wave of amnesia? Both impossibly at once?”

Let’s go 💃🏻