Michael Barnes
I read Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief because a review of her novel Psychopomp sounded like just my thing, but it isn't in my library and the publication hasn't appeared on Australian Kobo (or I would have bought it in a heart beat), so I picked up the only novel of hers in my public library Liar, Dreamer, Thief.
So grateful I did its brilliant. For the first 50 pages I struggled a bit but then something clicked and I was propelled into this - its not an unreliable narrative story, as those stories seem to have a sense of deception, our ethnically Korean narrator Katrina Kim living in the US sees the world refracted through a mind that she understand isn't how others see it. This refraction through the world of a book she read as a child 'Mi-Hee and the Mirror-Man'.
The mystery begins with the apparent suicide of her co-worker Kurt (who she isn't stalking no matter what her roomate Lonie says) and eventually ties in her fellow workers, roomate, even her parents is a resolution that makes the whole tale worthwhile.
Even more desperate to read Psychopomp now, may even have to buy a paper copy rather than ebook.
I read Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief because a review of her novel Psychopomp sounded like just my thing, but it isn't in my library and the publication hasn't appeared on Australian Kobo (or I would have bought it in a heart beat), so I picked up the only novel of hers in my public library Liar, Dreamer, Thief.
So grateful I did its brilliant. For the first 50 pages I struggled a bit but then something clicked and I was propelled into this - its not an unreliable narrative story, as those stories seem to have a sense of deception, our ethnically Korean narrator Katrina Kim living in the US sees the world refracted through a mind that she understand isn't how others see it. This refraction through the world of a book she read as a child 'Mi-Hee and the Mirror-Man'.
The mystery begins with the apparent suicide of her co-worker Kurt (who she isn't stalking no matter what her roomate Lonie says) and eventually ties in her fellow workers, roomate, even her parents is a resolution that makes the whole tale worthwhile.
Even more desperate to read Psychopomp now, may even have to buy a paper copy rather than ebook.