by Nina McConigley
4.8 · 4 reviews4 reviews
Refreshing to read something set in the rural West rather than a coastal city. The specificity is the whole point.
The structural games are impressive but once or twice they got between me and the characters. Still a striking book.
It's genuinely very funny, and the jokes are all load-bearing. I laughed and then felt slightly indicted, repeatedly.
McConigley uses the shape of a murder mystery to say a great deal about diaspora, belonging and who gets to tell whose story. The Wyoming setting is inspired.