I can see why it's the current favorite on betting odds to win the Booker. And the prize has gone the last two years to dark, intense books that don't shy away from violence. Who knows? 💙📚

It's interesting though to hold it next to fellow nominee Held, and consider what both are saying about who & what gets remembered & recorded, & the impact (however invisible it be) of love on history, or how history works on love. 💙📚