I feel full of mould and rot and bugs and shadows just from reading this. five stars!

queer woman with social anxiety and impostor syndrome has a mental breakdown in a big creaky old house (the book was brilliant and this a poor attempt at me avoiding relating to eleanor)

genuinely spectacular, an epic in the truest sense of the word. jimenez has such incredible control of language. he effortlessly shifts through time, place and perspective, switching from first, second and third person with ease — sometimes within a single sentence. I've never seen storytelling like this before, he sets up his own style and rules, then bends and breaks them in astounding ways. I can be a notorious skim reader but slowed right down for this, it demands your full attention but rewards you deeply and often. there is one particular sequence that I'm certain I will never ever forget.

this is truly something special.