Book 29 of my 2023 Reading Challenge
read on March 19
Ash Wednesday
by Paula McLain
My Opinion
2 stars
This short story is part of the A Point in Time collection available through Prime Reading. Although the plot was interesting (and apparently based on a true tragedy), I didn't like the way the story was shaped. With a short story you only have a few pages to convey a full arc and in this story it seemed like side details were honed in on at the expense of more important ones. I read multiple times about his mother smelling like apple peels but three of his children dying was mentioned in one sentence.
I was okay until the inquest and then everything wrapped up so quickly it threw me off. So this wasn't the story for me.
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