Twist by Colum McCann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
McCann finds the most interesting premises to write about. His tales are always interesting and his writing is always beautiful. But what i love the most is always his character development. His characters stick with you. They are so three-dimensional they jump off the page.
This is the story of Fennell, a journalist who is sent to connect with Conway. Conway repairs the internet cables that lie in the ocean when they break. He is an engineer and a freediver. He’s married to an artist who becomes famous during the time of the novel. The story is interesting in of itself. There are cables in the sea that carry the information we have at our fingertips. When the cables break, someone has to actually go fix them. Conway is one of those people. That is interesting, isn’t it?
But then there’s so much more. And there’s a mystery. In the solving of that mystery, more mysteries are unearthed and we are reminded that at their core, people are complex and we will never truly know them.
with gratitude to netgalley and Random House for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
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