The Repeat Room
Ball’s stripped-down surrealism gives way to stream-of-consciousness prose poetry from the point of view of the accused ... Both halves are expertly written, and the second is visceral and moving. But do the halves form a whole? ... Ball certainly caught something here. The Repeat Room is compelling, eerie and dreamlike, even if, like a dream, the parts don’t fully cohere.
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This is a speculative fiction with the brevity and depth of a fable ... A compelling fable about the nature of fiction, including the fiction that is memoir: about what it can and cannot tell us, and what we must decide to do with that imperfect knowledge.
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Ball’s vision is chilling, his writing flawless in this stark, grueling tale of humans bereft of care and compassion, of love denied, sanity endangered, and judgement weaponized.
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