"'murky', 'obscure', 'hazy', 'hallucinatory', 'difficult', 'frustrating','incomprehensible', 'intriguing'"
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The Impossibly
“The state of new fiction is as robust and diverse as ever, and exploding with character, if Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity and Laird Hunt's The Impossibly are any measure.The Impossibly is first and foremost a story rooted in character. In this case, a single character unlike any I've yet encountered. This first novel of paranoia and, in an odd way, yearning, also is probably one of the funniest and strangest books I've read in a long while. I'll confess, I'm not entirely sure I understood it and yet I was oddly moved by it. In the end, The Impossibly is a novel of thoughts. "I was told once in a big bed in the countryside by the woman I loved that what made it always so difficult, all of it, was to be an interior in a world of exteriors," the nameless man muses. We never quite know what "it" is, and yet, of course, we do. ” — St. Petersburg Times Impossibly
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Funny, smart, and perfectly pitched, Laird Hunt’s extraordinary debut follows the amusing but deadly debacles of its narrator, an anonymous secret operative embroiled in the dark underworld of transnational organized crime. When he botches an assignment for the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life - including his new girlfriend - is revealed to be either true-blue or double operative. As he frugally doles out clues about his dangerous work, the reader inevitably becomes both confidante and fellow gumshoe. The narrator’s final assignment - to identify his own assassin - dismantles the reader’s own analysis of the evidence and reveals that things are not always what they seem.
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