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The fall of lisa bellow is a novel that simultaneously entranced and moved me

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I love her because i feel her selfhood because perabo has managed to give her a selfhood within her fictional parameters but i wondered often as i read if i was supposed to love her if she was supposed to be a protagonist

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In finishing the novel i decided that it didn’t matter that this novel has broken through some contrived boundaries of protagonistandantagonist a powerful reminder that we are the protagonists of our own stories but perhaps the antagonists of someone else’s

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Perabo does just that with this novel and gives power and oftconflicting voice to her characters via shifting points of view each honest ringing true to the reader’s ears even when those perspectives clash and disagree

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For instance claire at one point notes that “death was complicated

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And apparently it just kept on being complicated and exhausting forever probably until you yourself died and became an exhausting complication that someone else had to constantly negotiate

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The truth of this novel leaves it in some very critical way satisfying despite the loose ends that mark its resolution