![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes about more than someone not being present and the things they might have said or done if alive she makes their absence into a tangible presence that’s simultaneously tragic and disquieting. This leads, perhaps inevitably, to awkwardness with her mother and older brother when they’re more willing to move forward and take a more honest view of the past. Phoebe is obsessed with these losses, and her impressions of her sister and father are heavily idealized. She lives at home with her mother, and their house is fairly quiet, with Faith’s old room left largely untouched and their late father’s paintings gathering dust. ![]() Phoebe is fixated on the memories of her late sister, Faith. The first part of The Invisible Circus is exceptional and is one of my favorite things by Jennifer Egan. This review will contain spoilers for the end of the book. The ending did not live up to the promise of Part One. I didn’t want to keep a book that had landed in the DNF pile several times already, but I had such fond memories of Part One. I’d read Part One several times and loved it, but consistently lost interest somewhere in Part Three. When I culled my bookshelves at the start of the summer, Jennifer Egan’s The Invisible Circus shifted into and out of the “keep” pile. ![]()
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