A Year in Reading: Maggie Millner
This fall, I devoured First Love by Gwendoline Riley, a novel that takes a fresh, slantwise approach to several themes dominating literature these days: dysfunctional relationships, gendered power dynamics, obsessive love. But this book is so much stranger and spikier than most novels of its kind; reviewers have aptly compared the scene-writing to’s and the almost dada. I kept thinking of early : another piercing, offbeat conjurer of difficult romances.
