Switzy by Emma Cline: book review (booker longlist)
Switzy by Emma Cline Thank you to Vintage for sending me an early copy of the novel for review purposes. All opinions are my own. Historically, I have read Emma Cline with interest as a literary phenomenon but without much attachment to her work. I didn't quite get the hype around The Girls , and while I liked The Guest , it didn't leave a huge impression. I preferred her short story collection, Daddy , over both novels, which is a rarity for me. But, still, there's something that keeps me coming back to the new Emma Cline releases. Maybe it's that I like each new one a little more than the last. But Switzy is a novel entirely in its own league, among the most unique and impactful I've read so far this year and a total deviation for Cline. While she always writes about money and power in some form or fashion—and that remains true here—nearly everything else about Switzy is its own from the writing style to the switch to writing from the perspective of...
