Title:: [[Birnam Wood]] Authors:: [[Eleanor Catton]] Tags:: #fiction Read::[[2023-05-04]] ## Editions - Edition:: [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]], First American Edition, 2023 - Original Copyright:: 2023 - Pages:: 423 ## Annotations A readable novel with clichéd unlikeable characters is sometimes what’s necessary in a moment, and I’ve been in one of those ruts.  About the best thing I can say is that in the end, like the play referenced in the title, it’s a true Shakespearean tragedy smh.  Also, I read the Dwight Garner review in the NYT after the fact and it felt like we read different books. It includes this god-awful line: “Greta Gerwig could film this novel, but so could Quentin Tarantino.” 🤦🙄