Kaveh Akbar's Martyr!
So Christina started this and told me she was enjoying it, and since I wanted to read something more literary after a slightly silly vampire book, I thought I’d try it—the description made it seem so cool and it was so so many best-of lists. But it’s about a depressed literary guy and it’s kind of slow. I’m not particularly interested in books about sad literary guys contemplating mortality. But occasionally the POV switches to more interesting characters, particularly his mother, and then things start getting good. I did end up liking this, but it definitely made me more depressed than I already was. A-/B+.
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