![]() ![]() Perhaps the perfect time to read it is now, in a global pandemic, when time feels stopped, present and past atrocities knit together on a single stitch. If it’s too quaint to be new, it’s too cruel to be old. there is something undeniably modern about Good Behaviour. Its satire a blade sharpened nearly to transparency, Good Behaviour was Keane at her keenest. ![]() A narrator in denial a style purged of description a plot never spelled out a love that dares not speak its name. Brock’s fate acquires a mythic significance, a prime example of bad behavior brutally punished. ![]() After all, she must know enough to know what she must not let herself know. Layering Aroon’s past and present points of view with those of characters who haven’t yet been introduced, Keane masterfully reveals the coexistence in Aroon of deep, instinctual knowledge and willful ignorance. To solve the whydunit of Good Behaviour, the reader must penetrate its narrator’s protective shell of denial, divining the truth through odd silences and peculiar lapses in the narrative point of view. ![]()
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