I am struggling to order my thoughts about this. It has baffled me in many ways.

This felt like a very detached novel; the unnamed narrator felt entirely self-contained, their world view an odd one. It works - though we are inside her head throughout, the viewpoint felt ostracising.

Despite references to modern technology, the setting felt timeless, as well as geographically unspecific. The root of the ostracisation appears to be antisemitism - and there are references throughout that seemed to make this clear - but the tone and claustrophobia could have spoken to other forms of discrimination and suppression.

It's a novel to be studied and unpicked and I am not sure I enjoyed it so much as I could appreciate and respect what it was doing.