A sharp debut novel uses the pandemic and ancient myths to cast a philosophical eye on how we live
, which didn’t because it was too faithful a rendition of an immediate past we all wanted to forget.
But it’s the immediate past that colours our expectations of the future, and in Clare Pollard’s funny and sharp debut novel,, the unnamed narrator is “sick of the future. Up to here with the future.” It’s 2020 and she is battered by predictions of further epidemics and AI extinction and civilisational collapse. “No one used to have to deal with this much future.
And when she’s not frightened, she’s bored: “bored of being in my head, or of gazing at books or screens, which is being inside someone else’s head”. But some heads are more interesting than others, andis ripe with references and allusions, from the oracle at Delphi to Cassandra, the daughter of Troy who was cursed by Apollo always to be disbelieved.is not just a novel about Covid; it’s also about how a given historical moment such as the pandemic can connect us to the past and to the universal.
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