Books about dissonance

There’s a glitch in the matrix.

It's Little Reviews time, and today we're talking about dissonance — you know, that feeling of dissolution from the self; from memories; even from reality. I've got three books on the roll today: 

• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder)

• Second Place by Rachel Cusk, which I mentioned in S02:E12 | The Critical Conceit: Divine Creativity, Compliment Sandwiches, & September ABC Picks

• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, our ABC pick for May (including a reference to The Tiger's Wife, which I reviewed in S02:E18 | Books Like a Surrealist Fable (feat. Téa Obreht & Ruth Ozeki))

Here’s the full transcript for you, too.

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