Meredith, Alone is Claire Alexander's debut novel. The writing style itself is very simple and easy to read, which is a good thing, but as a reading experiece this wasn't to my liking. I don't mind stories that move in time, either jumping forward over long periods of time, or alternating between two timelines, but I really do not like non-linear stories like this, for one reason or other. And that's one of my least favorite narrative structures. The present chapters move forward in a linear fashion, and the past chapters jump around through out Meredith's life from childhood onward. The story jumps around in past and present. She suffers from trauma caused by relentless abuse at the hands of her mother through her life, as well as the trauma of being raped. She's severly agoraphobic and hasn't left her house in over three years. She works as a free writer, so she gets to set her own hours and works from home. Meredith is a 39-year-old woman who lives in a home she owns. This was interesting and well-written, but I didn't like the structure and found it over all a really uncomfortable read which made me not want to pick it back up.
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