A huge wealth of GRATITUDE & ADMIRATION to Sueyeun Juliette Lee for this most amazing & incredibly thoughtful review of Damnation on The Constant Critic.

An excerpt:

The emotional squalor that Damnation wallows in suggests there’s little hope. What is commonly considered a great human trait—that of perseverance—in practice emerges as our curse. However, as spiritually destitute as the book’s characters are, there’s a desperate beauty in their perseverance. Their endurance isn’t willful. It simply exists. They have no way to elect it for themselves. Much of Damnation’s magnetism comes from the way that their persistence sensitizes the characters to the squalor of their condition. It’s a terrifically hard text to put down.

Read the full review here.