Book of the Week: LORI & JOE by Amy Arnold
When Lori takes her partner Joe coffee in the morning, she finds him dead. She immediately sets off on a long loop walk over the Westmorland fells. This remarkable piece of writing shows us how the mind maintains its claustrophobia even in the most wide-open spaces. Amy Arnold compellingly captures the way her protagonist’s thoughts swarm and cluster, accumulate in ruts and run thin over past traumas, stuttering in proximity to the unfaceable that yet shapes everything it underlies.