Dionne BrandIn Another Place, Not Here

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I'm only half-way through - not really far enough along to consider my review valid - but reading In Another Place, Not Here is like reading a book written by my cat. It's ignores every attempt I make to engage it. It refuses to recognize my existence. A paragraph's opening will introduce something dramatic, like an immigration raid, or a violent threat, or a sexual assault, and then a few sentences later, within the same paragraph, without explaining who did what to whom and why, it'll just introduce something else mundane and unrelated, in a new time and place, and completely irrelevant to the plot, and continue at it for two pages. It's like when your cat sidles up to your leg like it really wants to be pet, but then as soon as you bend down to pet it, it walks over to your garbage can and stares at it for twenty minutes.Also - and this is more so a pet peeve of mine - it really overuses pronouns. With the text's many abrupt shifts in subject, time and place, the overuse of pronouns leaves you wondering who "she" is, and which people are included in "their." It sacrifices clarity for the sake of style.