in search of new

Yasmin Zaher: The Coin 

I have not ever read a book about a very wealthy Palestinian in New Your, but ta - daa, now I have and after reading the book, I am confused. not about Palestina, not about New York but the story, the twisted mind of the protagonist, the unlikeability of her once reading onward the book. she was strange, and not all in a good or even understandable way. 

I understand - she pursues her dream to thrive in America but then she becomes friend wirh a homeless and they embark to a very strange business together and eventually her past, her body and mind do not fit into same body anymore and she goes beyond wild. 

so, this was a book to me where the protagonist has not own any pleasurable traitors in her, when her choices makes you lift hour eyebrows and her values, oh well, not according yours. This is literature that made me think, wonder and line up my own values. And somehow - a filthy rich palestinian in New York as an educator to boys lacking means … and the friend, the Threnchcoat man and the boyfriend not to talk about her routines, her losing her sanity (a second book in a month where protagonist loses her mind, her sanity even trough in Beside the Sea also drastic tragick deaths occur…). oh well. well written, that it is. so read! 

Katie Kitamura: Audition. 

First part, okey, all well, but then second part, same characters and all totally upside down. was I lied to? Did they just trick me? Did I understand at all what I just read…

First part: there is an actress in her mid-years and a young man appears He asks her to have coffee with him in a nearby cafe and he claims that she is her birth mother even though that is impossible.

Okey, but

then

in the second part, the story in the first part ends up being a total lie. Not only has the structure of the couple ´s marriage changed - they have a son. And it's Tomas, not the actress, who has been unfaithful and little by little, with the boy ´s - Xavier ´s - girlfirend, the actress's life begins to unravel into horror.

This needs a second reading.

Tony Tulathimutte: Rejection

Okey, something completely new again. reading this was like scrolling through internet, social media platforms, gossip, comments and things unravelling and exposing and exloding. 

It was funny even thoug it should have not been funny. yet, the structure - seven connected stories -  I liked a lot. it talks about sex, relationships, internet as mentioned and yes, of course the hot topic in this genre, identity.  (and the first story, The Feminist - I just loved it, all of it!!! so real, so brutal, so true).