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Carregando... The Upstairs House: A Novel (original: 2021; edição: 2021)de Julia Fine (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The theme veers quickly off into an unusual, but fascinating trip into an imaginary life with the 1940s authors and poets, that is so real that our narrator, Megan seems to be interacting with them. I wasn’t too sure just how Julia Fine was going to carry this them throughout an entire book and still keep the reader on track. Why is Megan hearing strange noises? How does she seemingly connect with what can only be ghost-like images? The forays into the 1940s lives of these characters really didn’t captivate me very much since I was more interested in what would happen to Megan in the present. I was also amazed by how nobody around Megan seems to notice that she was struggling. They criticized her and urged her to get out more and even suggested that she to get “help,” but instead of offering assistance or even compassion, they just seem angry with her. Megan’s oblivious husband and critical sister were additional frustrating characters for me. In the days following the birth of Megan's first child, strange things begin to happen. The reader wonders, is she being haunted or is she psychotic? Fine's depiction of the isolation of new motherhood and of the expectation for everything to be a-ok right away feels capital-T True, but the unfolding of the story is tedious at times (as is motherhood, admittedly). This novel addresses the ways we fail women and the things that we pass down to our children as we live our lives of quiet desperation. I forgot to review this back when I read it in November, and forgot to review it again when it was released in February, so I've forgotten a lot of nuances. Post-partem depression is a hell of a foundation for a horror novel. Megan can't seem to connect with her baby and, despite her efforts at a facade, is beginning to worry her husband and her family. To make matters worse there is the constant noise from the apartment upstairs. There didn't used to be one, but a door has appeared halfway up the stairs and the person occupying that space is unapologetic. She's also Margaret Wise Brown. At times 'The Upstairs House' was a real nail-biter - especially where the baby is concerned - but there was a bit of a pacing issue. I liked the flashes back to Brown's life and her relationship with Blanche Oelrich (or Michael Strange), but they may have been why the novel began drifting. The closer the book got to the climactic finish, the more I was mentally pulling away from it. Your mileage may vary. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The narrator is haunted by Margaret Wise Brown and her lover, Michael Strange. As someone who also studied children's literature at the graduate level, I found this to be very jarring. MWB is not someone who is mentioned frequently outside of academics. To have her pop up, much less with Strange, felt nightmarishly tailored to me. There is also a very strong "Yellow Wallpaper" aspect to the plot. ( )