A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a beautiful, raw book.
Look, I’m a little slow, and I needed, like a hot bath or something, some time to ease in. In fact, I read the first chapter over twice, three times. The second was to figure out what was going on, who’s voice this was, and then the third was to savor it.
So the style’s a bit different than your run-of-the-mill novel, but man oh man, does she use it well. It reminds me a little bit of Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, but Eimear McBride’s book is so so so so much better.
The main character, her relationships to her family and those around her are all so well depicted, and so heart-breaking, this book lived up to the hype.