by Emily Bitto
This is why I hate getting behind on reviews. On one hand, a little time to reflect on a book is great for processing. On the other, too much time is simply too much. It's been more than six weeks since I finished Emily Bitto's The Strays, and now I'm struggling to remember what I liked and didn't l...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.The Strays follows the Trentham family and their other live-in artists in 1930s Melbourne. Bitto draws the reader and narrator, Lily, into the art world through Eva. Lily meets Eva, one of th...
I did enjoy it, but not as much as I thought I would. Some of her turns of phrase were truly beautiful but I never got a sense of the time in which the story was set. I felt this was important to provide a 'moral context' for the book. But I acknowledge that Bitto was possibly making a statement ab...
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