Reservoir 13
Book description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A “fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving” about an English village haunted by one family’s loss—for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Smith’s NW (George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily).
Midwinter in…
Why read it?
1 author picked Reservoir 13 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Like all good books, Reservoir 13 is transformative. It’s made me see the world differently, as a place where swallows and bats and the nettle and a river and ewes and wood pigeons and the weather and townspeople are all interconnected through the cycle of years. McGregor manages to do this through a collage-like structure, where a description of a person moves effortlessly into a description of nature, proving that all living things have seasons, stories, and beauty.
By the end of the book, I always feel kind of god-like as a reader, in the sense that I’ve watched and…
From Debbie's list on showing humans aren’t the only species that matter.
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