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smalltimereadsA Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich is published by Two Dollar Radio.
It's been a while since I read a book in one day, let alone a work day, even if the book is under 200 pages. A Door Behind a Door is chopped up into little paragraphs, each with headers, some only a word or two long, and cascading together in a way that is very bite-size and very moreish. It reminded me a tad of In the Dream House in format, but only in format. That helped the quick read, but there was also the way things came together (or didn't, or I thought they might) that gathered speed as I realized there were only so many pages left.
I'm not sure how to describe what A Door Behind a Door is about, because it wasn't what I thought it was but it's also pretty much what the book flap says- it's about a girl named Olga who emigrates to the US from the Soviet Union, and about a man from her past calling her out of nowhere, and about their shared past. It's about love? About grief? About weird supernatural business? It's about how the past is never truly past? All of these things and/or none of them? It starts off fairly linear and then blooms into something more circular and complex.
The prose is lovely, and I can absolutely tell that it will hold up to rereads in the way where you notice something new, or pieces fit together differently, each time. It was just interesting and weird and intense.
It's been a while since I read a book in one day, let alone a work day, even if the book is under 200 pages. A Door Behind a Door is chopped up into little paragraphs, each with headers, some only a word or two long, and cascading together in a way that is very bite-size and very moreish. It reminded me a tad of In the Dream House in format, but only in format. That helped the quick read, but there was also the way things came together (or didn't, or I thought they might) that gathered speed as I realized there were only so many pages left.
I'm not sure how to describe what A Door Behind a Door is about, because it wasn't what I thought it was but it's also pretty much what the book flap says- it's about a girl named Olga who emigrates to the US from the Soviet Union, and about a man from her past calling her out of nowhere, and about their shared past. It's about love? About grief? About weird supernatural business? It's about how the past is never truly past? All of these things and/or none of them? It starts off fairly linear and then blooms into something more circular and complex.
The prose is lovely, and I can absolutely tell that it will hold up to rereads in the way where you notice something new, or pieces fit together differently, each time. It was just interesting and weird and intense.
