your writing and narration style reminds me a lot of Milan Kundera's works... he's one of my favorite authors and the way you are able to create images and carefully curate the atmosphere into something so palpable yet lithe, so beautiful. i noticed this already, but it felt extremely noticeable in the final chapter. great great work. ——— oh my god!! what a compliment, thank you <3 i was very sad to hear of his passing last month, and strangely i was filling out an old crossword puzzle and one of the answers was about him. life & art etc. thank you for taking the time to send this <33