This week I've been mainly reading, no. 136.
Teju Cole's new novel, Tremor (2023), is a fragmented meditation on migration & memory, which then shifts into a portrait of Lagos via the subjects of the main character's photos. It well written & contains some compelling elements, but overall is (for my tastes) too unstructured to be completely satisfying. It slightly elegiac feeling is intriguing but in the end the lack of focus (or central narrative core) left me puzzled.
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