Loop

"There’s a sense of porous boundaries between the main character’s internal reality and what she can see. There’s all this marvelous slippage. I suppose it’s counterfactual in that it’s a book that’s not content entirely with factual reality. She has the feeling that Proust is walking around in her neighborhood. It’s wonderful. It is an absolute delight. The main thing I read for is the voice of a story— not the plot or the setting or even the attributes of the character aside from the way they speak. I think you have to understand your appetite as a reader to choose the right book to read. You should choose this book if you want to spend some time in the company of a voice that feels like a very good, old friend of yours taking you on a nonlinear tour of the way she writes in between her life and everything she’s ever read."