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I have finished Part 1 (childhood) and am now reading Part 2 (20 years later). The prose is very interesting. I can't think of another book quite like it. I want to say it's weaving a tapestry through the repetition of words, events, biblical and fairy tale references, etc. Although, perhaps it is tangled wool to use a phrase from the book with its change in characters and time frames, and it's more like the story is pulling threads apart to unweave them.
I started to do a little research on the author's life and her own struggles with mental health, including 8 years spent in the hospital receiving 200 electroshock treatments. She was about to have a lobotomy when a hospital official read that she had won a literary prize, and then she was released.
AnotherCat, I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say about what represents typical New Zealand fiction and how this does or doesn't represent that.
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