‘I am Iggy, a thirty-year-old woman who works as an attendant at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. I’m not a hero.’ Well, that is already clear, in this novel by the Flemish writer Femke Vindevogel. She previously made her debut with Confituurwijk, which is set in a deprived neighborhood in Ghent. Her new book Brick is set in the same environment. Iggy finds two bags of stones in front of her door. They turn out to be the remains of a mural that her late father once made. By puzzling with the stones, she remembers the abusive alcoholic he was, a man who shot empty beer cans with a shotgun in the garden.
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Femke Vindevogel gives her dark story air with playful prose and strong metaphors
