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Green Girl (2014)

by Kate Zambreno(Favorite Author)

4.53 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062322834 (ISBN13: 9780062322838)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Picked this up at an independent bookstore in Wisconsin - not sure I would have seen/heard of it otherwise (Oh, how I love a good independent bookstore!). The book is maddening, blah and hugely deep all at once. The writing and structure itself is well-done. I especially liked the quotes the author used to introduce new scenes throughout. They themselves tell a great story - just with the rest of the action had done the same. The arc of the story is very subtle, almost too subtle, as in almost not there. Yet, in the end, the chance to imagine the inner life of a green girl through the author's literary mind was worth it.
review 2: look, i like "girls" and everything, but there's only so many stories about privileged, self-absorbed white girls whose daily agony ... moreis the fact that their lives are so boring and empty and all they want is to BE SOMEBODY without actually wanting to put in any effort to do anything to progress themselves that i can handle before rolling my eyes endlessly into my skull. i'm not saying that it's not worth doing a character study of a girl like this, and certainly there were parts to her totally tragic struggle that i once identified with. but ultimately, i am too far removed from this phase in my life to not want to push this character into some train tracks. i think the book had a handful of relatively insightful things to say about femininity and what it means to be a modern (privileged white) woman trying to make her mark on the world, but the way this was written just seemed so desperate for profundity that i found it a chore to make it through the 260-ish pages of story. EHHHHH. less

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