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    Feast Days

    Written by Ian MacKenzie

    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard

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    ‘Brilliant. Among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad’ Garth Greenwell

    So. We were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren’t the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but we were people far from home nevertheless. Our naivety didn’t have political consequences. We had G.P.S. in our smartphones. I don’t think we were alcoholics. Our passports were in the same drawer as our collection of international adapters, none of which seemed to fit in Brazilian wall sockets. My husband was in the chrysalis stage of becoming a rich man, and idealism was never my vice.

    I was ancillary – a word that comes from the Latin for ‘having the status of a female slave’. That’s the sort of thing I know, and it tells you something about how I misspent my education. The term among expats for people like me was ‘trailing spouse’ . . .

    ‘Captivating’ Irish Times

    ‘Devastating, funny and wise’ Garth Greenwell

    ‘A triumph’ Samantha Harvey

    ‘A writer so gifted with language that you forget who you are in the poetry of his prose’ Uzodinma Iweala

    ‘Magnificent, profound, and true’ Elisa Albert

    ‘Reminded me in parts of Maggie Nelson. Stunning’ Sophie Mackintosh

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJul 26, 2018
    ISBN9780008299040
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    • 3/5
      Ian MacKenzie's 'Feast Days', a novel considerably outside my normal circle of genres, is a sort of trifling thing. If you're interested in following the travails of a couple young, affluent NYC-type ex-pats as they learn the ropes around Sao Paolo, Brazil by partying at nightclubs, dining at high end restaurants, and visiting art galleries while ruminating on poverty, it may well be up your alley. Feast Days is largely a collection of episodes. Couple visits a bar, runs into man's co-worker. They talk about work. Couple gets mugged on way home, causing much discussion and thoughts about the nature and unfairness of wealth and absence of same. Woman gets interested in political riots taking place in the city. Man works late. Woman may or may not decide to have a baby. Woman may or may not decide to have an affair. Couple goes on vacation.... I'm quite sure there's a message buried in there somewhere, but I think you need to care about the characters enough to try to figure out what it is and, alas, I couldn't get there.What I did enjoy, though, was MacKenzie's writing. It has a sort of DeLillo feel to it: mostly crisp, short sentences that create a staccato feel for the narrative. Thankfully, Feast Days is short, so although I liked the writing, the story was over quickly.