Poor Deer

A Novel

De: Claire Oshetsky

Narrado por: Sophie Amoss

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The writing is superb

I loved the mixture of realism and imagination. It made for a sad, tender and utterly original novel. This is a writer to watch.

Great narration

The voice and description of Poor Deer is utterly creepy! It's a haunted tale.

Poetry

This book drew me in with the most lovely poetic language and beautiful but eerie imagery. The feelings evoked by this tale of guilt, self flagellation, self protection and discovering oneself after a traumatic childhood event, were both touching and curious.

I can’t imagine anyone performing this book better than Sophie Amoss. She captured every character’s attitude and revealed their inner workings so deftly. Her voice was mesmerizing and a little spooky as Poor Deer. We felt the burden that Margaret felt of being haunted by her and chastised throughout her life by Poor Deer.

If you’ve ever felt grief or guilt, this a whisper in your ear you should hear.

Self Forgiveness

This is an emotionally fraught story and was rather difficult for me to listen to. It’s about how we assign blame to ourselves for a tragedy, even though as a very young child it was beyond our capability to analyze and conclude that we are not at fault. How we will naturally internalize and take on blame after being made the scapegoat due to others’ grief and their need to assign blame. How we make up a voice, a presence, a constant companion who cruelly accuses us of blame and comes to convince us of our wickedness. Of making up stories for a future we can’t possibly foretell. How out of habit we still can’t forgive ourselves. Of carrying a terrible and heavy burden, undeserved.

Very strange buy excellent

Poor Deer is strange in the quietest, most unsettling way—deeply sad, unresolved, and unwilling to wrap itself up neatly. I loved that the ending is left open, asking the reader to sit with what Margaret has survived. There is hope there, even if it isn’t promised, and I choose to believe she eventually finds her own version of a happy ending.