Seven Kinds of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman

There were aspects of this book that I really liked. Telling an interesting storyline through seven characters' points of view in sequence is not an entirely unique idea, but Perlman puts some interesting spins on it. In some cases, he writes in second person, and in other he uses conversation to explore a character's retelling of the story. That's what's most interesting in the book: the relaying of the different truths each character believes about the events occurring. These differences go far beyond charaters' interpretations of the truth being different; they encompass vast deceits. What I did not like about the book and what arguably (although I'd probably recommend it just for its uniqueness) ruined it for me was that the characters' personalities were not well-differentiated. Certainly their speech patterns were differentiated and they had different socio-economic spaces in life, but they seem to have the strangely similar voices. The other criticism is the final choice of narrator. There were a few obvious choices for who this could be and I think Perlman "jumped the shark" in his off-the-beaten-path choice.