{"id":12196,"date":"2018-09-06T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2018-09-06T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:15:54","slug":"review-foe-ian-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-foe-ian-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Foe by Iain Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12197\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-foe-ian-reid\/foe\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?fit=1400%2C2145&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,2145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"foe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?fit=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12197\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe-228x350.jpg?resize=228%2C350\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?resize=228%2C350&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?resize=768%2C1177&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?resize=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 668w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?resize=1200%2C1839&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/foe.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 85vw, 228px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Foe-Novel-Iain-Reid\/dp\/150112742X\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1536198884&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Foe<\/em>\u00a0by Iain Reid<\/a><br \/>\nGallery\/Scout Press (September 2018)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>272 pages; $17.10 paperback; $11.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SadieHartmann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sadie &#8220;Mother Horror&#8221; Hartmann<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fans of Iain Reid\u2019s first novel\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m Thinking of Ending Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> already want this book. They\u2019re looking for more of what he delivered in his debut novel &#8212; that\u00a0 &#8220;unique, slightly off-kilter, unsettling prose that grabs you and pulls you into the story until it\u2019s over&#8221; kind of thing. Rest assured, he&#8217;s done it again.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t want to say that Iain Reid is ruining me for other books, but he is &#8212; there, I said it. I\u2019ll try to explain what he does so well: Reid\u2019s narrative is simultaneously sophisticated and casual. It lives in the space between challenging and accessible. I recently tweeted that reading this book felt like eating exotic foods where the foreign flavor explosions have me guessing at the ingredients; my mind in a constant state of exploration &#8212; new and exciting but also exactly what I want. How does a writer do this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to Reid, I\u2019m also a junkie for short chapters &#8212; I wish all books were formatted as such. The mystery of this story is presented immediately. Readers will start gathering questions from page one and then you will carry these with you for the rest of the book. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Junior and Henrietta live in a quaint farmhouse in isolation. A stranger shows up with perplexing news. The duration of the story is the unraveling of the characters as they are forced into some unexpected circumstances. The tension and that initial mystery buzz in your mind, slow and steady at first and then later, aggressively. There are a few recognizable moments where my running theory about the story was stripped away with just a sentence. I built new theories and those too were peeled back, revealing a different idea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favorite thing about Iain\u2019s work in this story is also my favorite thing about his previous novel &#8212; these characters, their relationship and who they are as people is handcrafted with details so intimate, they feel eerily familiar. I found myself in these pages a few times in Hen\u2019s thoughtlife or in Junior\u2019s frustration. Some scenes I read to my husband because Reid was so mindful of a real couple &#8212; the way people are behind closed doors. I can\u2019t help but wonder if Reid is leaving everything on these pages, the story feels so exposed, vulnerable and personal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the end finally comes, it\u2019s like falling through the floor. The bottom just drops out and now I have a serious book hangover and a creeping need for another Iain Reid novel. This is a book I\u2019ll read again while I wait for his next one. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foe\u00a0by Iain Reid Gallery\/Scout Press (September 2018) 272 pages; $17.10 paperback; $11.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Sadie &#8220;Mother Horror&#8221; Hartmann Fans of Iain Reid\u2019s first novel\u00a0I\u2019m Thinking of Ending Things already want this book. They\u2019re looking for more of what he delivered in his debut novel &#8212; that\u00a0 &#8220;unique, slightly off-kilter, unsettling prose that grabs you and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-foe-ian-reid\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Foe by Iain Reid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[1571,1573,1572,79,1545],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-foe","tag-iain-reid","tag-mother-horror","tag-reviews","tag-sadie-hartmann"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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