Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Whoof.
What a book.
I picked it up with both dread at the prospect of reading a gimmicky one sentence long book and hope that it would turn out every bit as the reviews and praise and awards had said it was.
I don’t want to overhype it, but I thought this was a beautiful book, a lovely reflection on family and a real sense of place that defines a person’s life and love of all sorts. I could imagine Michael Joyce writing a book like this, it’s that poetical and elegiac.
I have dozens of page edges turned down for little moments that were funny, poignant, touching, or just so well written.
What a book.