When a novel started with the sentence:

For a novel that is less than 100 pages. It blew me away.

I feel that, its not so easy to write a short story, especially one that can entice your readers to the very end. It will have to be compact but not too tight, and having to actually portray the emotions of each characters to the readers. And good lord, this book did just that.

In less than 100 pages,an array of emotions hit me as I am reading through it. I was angry, I was sad, I was devastated, and I even cried. And most of all, I was SO SATISFIED with how it ended. The open ending gives such a leeway for the readers to imagine what they wanted at the end.

For me, Ginzburg has the power to capture her audience in such a way that you feel enamoured. Her writing, the way she moved her readers with her unnamed narrator and being able to understand the emotions that the narrator is facing and just the slow descent of rage and anger, her loneliness and her unworthy feeling towards herself and the world. Its the rage of a woman that has bottled up her feelings and in turn had led to the demise of the person that she once loved. Its both tragic and unnerving.

I can't tell how much this book opened the doors for a great female writer again for me. I love this to death. Highly recommended.

4.75🌟 for this gem