Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Summary (from the publisher): “As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves― and losses― of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait. Review: This book follows Sasha who has returned to Paris to revisit her previous life there. This is not a pleasant book. Sasha is on a downward spiral, and this is a desperate tale. While older now, she can still attract the attention of men, although it's unclear what they want from her. This is a stream-of-consciousness style novel whose action largely occurs off screen. Only in pieces does the reader slowly uncover her past, the source of her pain, and why Paris has sent her into such a...
