This book takes a unique approach to give a message to the reader. It starts out with a family going on vacation, staying at a nice AirBnB rental in Long Island, far from the city and their daily stresses.
Then the writer introduces some complications, slowly and then more quickly, and we watch how the people involve navigate this increasingly complex social situation. In the end the message is pretty clear, without being beat over the head with it. It is kind of like a horror story in that scary things are happening, but the stakes are different from your normal horror story.
The writing style of this book is slightly on the side of poetic, with plenty of repetition to illustrate points, and an odd insistence on the use of brand names – this choice becomes clearer later on.
I liked how things developed in this story without getting bogged down in details. Things happen that are completely unexpected and there is an allusion to the source but we don’t need to spend a lot of time and energy to concretely link the source with the result. It is enough to say that the source is the root issue here in this book.
I’m struggling to describe the book without giving away the premise. I just worry that the people that need to receive the message the author is broadcasting here are probably the ones who won’t get it.
Next I am reading God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn.
