Catch the Rabbit

A roadtrip from Bosnia to Austria reunites old best friends that had a falling out ages ago. Sara and Lejla had the popular literary girl friendship: they met as kids, spent all waking time together, developed a codependency where one is the leader, the other the follower, which leads to jealousy, toxicity and broken feelings. Add to that the cultural and political tensions of the Bosnian war. Now, after years apart, all those pent-up memories and feelings come out again.

I was all game for this, and loved the setup in the first half, but then so much was actually left unspoken, and the novel went down a rabbit hole which felt like a style exercise? I wanted to shake Sara to be a bit more insistent on getting truths, and all the pieces of Lejla presented to us, didn't feel like a cohesive whole. I also wanted more historical context. But nevertheless, I enjoyed a lot about this.

So, all she wanted, was for Sara to write a book about her?