A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi

 

Strange concept - a central character/narrator who is a different version of the same person every day of the week. And each version of the narrator has trust issues with the other versions.

Oyeyemi's prose style is unsettling and brilliant - surprising, obscure, eccentric, funny all at the same time.

I'm only up to Wednesday (Kinga-C is narrator) but liking it more and more, after being put off by the Monday narrator's verse for awhile. All will be revealed, I hope.

Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven

 

Like this very much, complex family love with discovered connections, half siblings, step siblings. Hunever moves back for through time to constantly unsettle us as to what we really know - vs what we thought we knew - about each character.

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

 

Good - great even - but I will admit that all of her Jackson Brodie crime novels blend in my mind, and I usually have no idea which one I'm reading, I'm just worshipping her motion.

This one is set in Scotland/Glasgow during the Fringe festival, and involves the spouse of a corrupt real estate developer, a Russian sex worker, a timid crime novelist, and of course, Jackson Brodie who is as muddled and ineffective and heroic as ever.

The Finishing School by Muriel Spark

 

Lovely, compact, dense as usual. A precocious 17 year old historical novelist squares off with his frustrated, envious private school headmaster.