How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
Thoughtful and affecting ... An engaging read, though Montague does herself no favors with a confusing beginning — the novel opens with a character who disappears for most of the book — and long-winded sentences that require more than one read.
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Affecting ... The trip around the southland goes on rather too long, and Magda’s recessive inwardness is largely to blame. It lends the proceedings a sluggish, claustrophobic atmosphere.
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Montague is such a gifted, sensitive and big-hearted writer that she can extend her imaginative sympathy even to Magda’s parents, whose strict Protestant religion taught them to revile this essential aspect of their daughter.
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