Ariel Dorfman

Suicide Museum

logan chung

beautiful book. At some point I concluded that I'd enjoy it more if I started reading it as pure memoir rather than fiction, even though the content is inverted from that. Ariel waxes poetic often, the scenery, subject matter, and settings meander, and monologues run very long. Dialogue doesn't feel realistic. 

But it's all very beautiful – placing the deepest and most eternal interior and external questions directly in the ring with each other. A singular project done admirably well. We should all be so encouraged to probe our own histories, and the histories that we're immersed in (including the future), with this much depth and grace.

Suicide Museum

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