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The Coin
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What a misleading premise! "The Coin" promises intrigue but delivers monotony.
If you're expecting a gripping tale of scheming or reselling Birkin bags, you're in for a disappointment. This book offers neither. Instead, it's a tedious journey through the protagonist's obsessions with cleanliness, clothes, students, and disjointed childhood flashbacks, spiraling into an incoherent mess.
Contrary to its synopsis, "The Coin" is a first-person narrative of a Palestinian heiress in New York who is compulsively clean, dedicating pages to the grotesque details of her hygiene routines. Her job at a private boys' school is barely about teaching and more about using the students as subjects for her bizarre stream of consciousness moments. The protagonist is deeply unlikable and strange, not "unraveling" as promised but rather starting off unstable. The book hints at deeper themes of existential turmoil and Palestinian heritage, but these are lost in a mire of pointless detail.
The protagonist's dream isn't the American Dream; it's a distorted reenactment of Palestinian suffering which I found thoroughly distasteful.
Ultimately, this book is neither unique nor memorable. If you dislike disjointed, stream of consciousness narratives with hardly any resolution at the end, "The Coin" most likely won't appeal to you.
If you're expecting a gripping tale of scheming or reselling Birkin bags, you're in for a disappointment. This book offers neither. Instead, it's a tedious journey through the protagonist's obsessions with cleanliness, clothes, students, and disjointed childhood flashbacks, spiraling into an incoherent mess.
Contrary to its synopsis, "The Coin" is a first-person narrative of a Palestinian heiress in New York who is compulsively clean, dedicating pages to the grotesque details of her hygiene routines. Her job at a private boys' school is barely about teaching and more about using the students as subjects for her bizarre stream of consciousness moments. The protagonist is deeply unlikable and strange, not "unraveling" as promised but rather starting off unstable. The book hints at deeper themes of existential turmoil and Palestinian heritage, but these are lost in a mire of pointless detail.
The protagonist's dream isn't the American Dream; it's a distorted reenactment of Palestinian suffering which I found thoroughly distasteful.
Ultimately, this book is neither unique nor memorable. If you dislike disjointed, stream of consciousness narratives with hardly any resolution at the end, "The Coin" most likely won't appeal to you.
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