Björn recenserade The nickel boys av Colson Whitehead
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There's something to Whitehead's writing that's the antithesis of building tension; sure he saves the big twist for the end - and it's the one thing in the book where I feel like that wasn't necessary - but for so much of the book, he's presenting the atrocities forced upon people in living memory so much in passing, as if he knows that the reader already knows what he's going to say, as if the readers are complicit in forgetting and just need their memories prodded a bit... and leaving it up in the air whether they'll admit to knowing.
There's something to Whitehead's writing that's the antithesis of building tension; sure he saves the big twist for the end - and it's the one thing in the book where I feel like that wasn't necessary - but for so much of the book, he's presenting the atrocities forced upon people in living memory so much in passing, as if he knows that the reader already knows what he's going to say, as if the readers are complicit in forgetting and just need their memories prodded a bit... and leaving it up in the air whether they'll admit to knowing.