![]() ![]() ![]() What I loved is the strangeness of the book. ![]() At some point I had to get the audio book to read along because the book kept on losing me. Our narrator talks in circles more often than not. The story drones on and on without breaks. Milkman is a difficult, tedious read with really, really long paragraphs and chapters. The book opens up with a captivating opening line and for the first 50 pages I was hooked. Milkman is set in Northern Ireland, and is narrated by an unnamed character, Middle Sister, who takes us through a paranoid society. My oh my was I not disappointed! To be fair, the book has its good moments but its also tiring. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.Īfter eyeing Milkman for years, I was excited to finally own a copy and reading. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. “…but youth and fitness don’t count for everything, often not even for anything.” ![]()
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