Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith (2007): A Review
Title : Girl Meets Boy Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2007 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 164 Source : book Genre : literary fiction, queer, retelling of myth Awards : James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee (2008) Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy (2007) is a little different from her other works, mostly because it does not require a diagram, a therapist, and three separate timelines to understand what is happening. The time, narration, and events are relatively straightforward, and the ending has the distinct air of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: everyone is floating toward harmony, transformation, and communal joy. Suspicious behavior, frankly. Because of that—and because it contains a little too much romance for my emotionally bankrupt literary taste—I am not a huge fan of this very small book. Apparently, what I want from literature is misery, confusion, trauma, grief, existential dread, and at least one narrative structure that makes me question my own eyesight. Happiness? Res...
