The novel has a fractured, unwieldy structure that echoes the relationships it describes: tortuously unbalanced, full of collisions and silences ... The novel’s nostalgic tone leaves it vulnerable to indulgence, and the time-jump framing device... is undeveloped to the point of near-redundancy ... Along with the vast passages of purple prose... the academic register of Hedman’s student characters begins to grate.
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