The Life Impossible
The novel keeps evolving — from grief memoir to murder mystery to environmental battle, sliding along a slick surface of greasy New Age truisms ... My objection to the sentimentality sprinkled over The Life Impossible is not that it’s emotional excess; it’s that it’s emotional aspartame. Yes, of course, fantasy can be a comfort in times of despair, but prescribing a story as silly as this one in response to a heartfelt confession of grief and depression feels like recommending brighter wallpaper as a treatment for termite damage.
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Fans of British writer Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library – and they are legion – will be thrilled by The Life Impossible ... Offers a strong moral.
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Though Grace engages in near-relentless self-loathing, Haig draws her with wisdom and heart ... A sinister hotel development plot and its predictable villain lack the juice of Grace’s arc ... Affecting.
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