Visitation

Jenny Erpenbeck
2008
Rating: 2

Made it 20 pages into this book and put it down. I’ve learned that overly-long descriptions of landscapes, of bathroom wallpaper, or in this case backyard gardens bore the shit out of me and feel like torture to read.

It was also very heavy on exposition, and seemed to brim with details that were not interesting and did not seem to advance the characters, themes or plot. It read like details for the sake of details.