The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson

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Interesting premise. A man about to die visits his dream places from A-Z and takes his wife with him. The language is very simple and the sentences are short. Sometimes too succint for savoring and quoting, which made me sad. I like me emo books to languish. The whole book is short actually, and I do wish this was longer. I bought this because it reminded me of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, something melancholic and lovestruck in tone, but I liked TTTW more. My gf commented on how it seemed like the writer here seemed to place an obvious distance between the nittygritty of human emotion and the events surrounding it, because he seemed scared of his own mortal fragility. Something like that. I wished the two main characters were both female and lesbians though, I wonder how that would be? But that's just me. Or maybe I'm looking for Winterson in the wrong books.

What I think: 5 unicorns