![]() ![]() I will admit that it was the perfume aspect of the novel that persuaded me to read the book. Ever since I was quite young, I have collected perfume bottles and scents. However, there was one aspect of The Perfume Collector that I found unable to resist: perfume. It just seems as if we are inundated with those these days. Anything, anything other than a dual narrative. I wanted flash fiction, meta fiction, flashback, flash forward. ![]() I wanted a coming-of-age tale in which the protagonist was unreliable. I wanted to read a story in which the narrator was the setting of the story. Your dull dual narrators yearning to break free…” If it had been closer to Halloween, I would have dressed up like the Statue of Liberty, torch and all, shouting my own version of the Emma Lazarus poem: I read the description and sighed deeply. It was with quite a bit of reluctance that I picked up The Perfume Collector. The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro (Harper 464 pages $24.99). ![]()
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