The small town setting in Newfoundland is perfect (as is the scene when Audrey is surprised that her pilot has heard of St.John’s). Details, descriptions, dialogue that capture the imagination. That said, there are some really beautiful plot moments. How can a grown woman not realize mice do not live twenty years? And really, really not realize? Her playful musings (and puns) do at times distract, and I found myself waiting through the first 3/4 of the novel for whatever cognitive ailment she has to be revealed. Much like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Audrey’s narrative voice is at first engaging and certainly memorable, but soon comes to be irksome – far too many short sentences, far too many. In fact my only complaint about the novel is her narrative voice. The plot, for one, unfolds so sweetly, so sensitively and with such care for the first person narrator, Audrey. There is a lot to love about Come, Thou Tortoise.
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