Adrián Astur Álvarez reviewed State of grace by Williams, Joy (Vintage contemporaries)
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5 stars
I took my time with this one. The prose is rich. I had to immerse myself in Williams' sentences and allow the narrative to emerge on its own. It does, by the way. This is definitely a novel I want to reread. A first pass doesn't do it justice. I love it when prose demands rigor and pays off with poignant themes, poetic insight, and more than a little transformation for both the characters and the reader.
I took my time with this one. The prose is rich. I had to immerse myself in Williams' sentences and allow the narrative to emerge on its own. It does, by the way. This is definitely a novel I want to reread. A first pass doesn't do it justice. I love it when prose demands rigor and pays off with poignant themes, poetic insight, and more than a little transformation for both the characters and the reader.