Glitch
Glitch is a perfectly realised novel – one which never wastes a word, nor loses sight of its central theme. In the Guardian, Jude Cook suggested that it was ‘occasionally overschematic with its central metaphor,’ but this is precisely the point. In constantly returning to its eponymous subject – in its obsessive replaying of flaws and errors, of recessions and disappearances – Glitch presents an exact imitation of the cyclical repetitions of trauma, and of an increasingly familiar mindset, therefore: one which doesn’t just see catastrophe and loss as divergences from the ordinary course of life, but as the defining features of its fabric.
Oscar Mardell reviews Lee Rourke‘s Glitch.