Traumatic brain injury. Ashley Judd. College hookup turned brain surgeon. A hurricane.
Thirty-two year old Allison is having a rough time. Fleeing LA and her movie producer boyfriend Allison has scraped enough money together to buy herself the perfect little fixer-upper beach bungalow on the shore of North Carolina just in time for it to be literally swept away by a hurricane. Allison’s story continues to spiral and we end up spending the majority of the story inside her head as she recovers from a traumatic brain injury.
Hurricane Girl is kind of a #weirdlittlebook and we know I appreciate me one of those!
The narrative is fuzzy and disorienting because we’re seeing events unfold from Allison’s perspective. This makes for a very immersive story. It also makes Allison somewhat of an unreliable narrator.
The publisher promised a story on the “knife’s edge of comedy and horror” and Hurricane Girl manages to balance that narrow space. There are elements of horror, mystery, and even humor as Allison finds her agency.
A page turner with a satisfying ending.
Thanks to Netgalley and Knopf Doubleday for an advanced review copy.
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