Katie Kitamura, A Separation ** 1/2

I believe I may have completely misinterpreted A Separation. The story is about a woman who travels to Greece to track down her missing husband, despite the fact that they have been secretly separated for months. The woman is an unreliable narrator who says on the first page that people find her reserved. From the very beginning I suspected that her interpretation of other people's actions was a projection of her feelings about her own situation; for example, she imagined a romantic triangle among the staff at the hotel that largely paralleled her own situation. I expected that we would eventually discover that she had completely misinterpreted others' intentions, but we never did. Her interpretation may have been a projection, but as the reader I guess I was supposed to be learning about her own feelings from it.

In line with the narrator's personality, the prose was more admirable than engaging.