one of those surprise charmers that initially appears to be microscopically focused yet encompasses its main character’s startlingly intimate, wide-ranging thoughts and feelings—both scholarly and libidinous—about life, love, literature, solitude, self-discipline, physical and intellectual appetites, and more. And it offers a delightfully original take on an age-old philosophical conundrum, the mind-body problem ... Brown’s novel contains a kingdom in its pages, probing nothing less than a reader’s relationship with a text and how to satisfyingly reconcile one’s mind and body.
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