Gut Symmetries

this book has her beautiful style but lacks her dynamic storytelling. a good read but not as great as some of her other work.

Jeanette is a wondrously talented author, and it's always a pleasure to experience her prose.

Likely due to me not being the intended audience, I strongly disliked every single character. Their intentions, drive, and choices have a mix of fatuousness and injudiciousness I found unpalatable.

Really cool premise, disappointing plot direction. Weirdly for Winterson, unempowering in a feminist sense.

writing style pissed me off. also where tf were the characters??

“‘Look at me,' said Grandmother. Yes look at her. Spiny as a jujube tree, sweet as a julep, ju-jitsu-minded with a heart like a jubilee. Energy, work and heat in the joule-force of her. A wryneck jynx, sudden turn of the head. Woodpecker bird at the World Ash Tree.”

I'm hard-pressed to remember a time I read such distinctive prose. I didn't care much for the plot or the characters (which is generally, you know, quite an indictment of a novel) but the sheer oddness of the writing made it worthwhile.