![]() ![]() The ending did not live up to the promise of Part One. This review will contain spoilers for the end of the book. ![]() The first part of The Invisible Circus is exceptional and is one of my favorite things by Jennifer Egan. Phoebe is fixated on the memories of her late sister, Faith. 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 obsessed with these losses, and her impressions of her sister and father are heavily idealized. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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