The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This entire book takes place overnight while Abigail is trying to prepare for a lecture she’s scheduled to give the next day and is struggling with both the lecture and insomnia. The entire book feels like a stream of consciousness where we get to hear bits of her economic thesis and thoughts on Keynes and his thoughts on the future using different rooms in her house as a memory technique intermeshed with stories of her own life including her career and family.
No matter how hard I tried, I could not connect to the character and I could not care for her ongoing saga. I felt like much of the book was one long sentence and I understand how it might have been done to give the feeling of how one might function with insomnia but it made the book quite unreadable for me.
with gratitude to edelweiss and grove press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
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