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Sanatorium
Sanatorium | Abi Palmer
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A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart. Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut.
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Soft pick.

Written by someone I knew, this is a mix of prose and poetry about her time in a sanatorium in Budapest, and back at home in London afterwards. Told in a non-linear way, jumping between the two and interspersed with vivid dreams. Abi is chronically ill and disabled.

I liked the poetry but found the prose a little like a diary. Some chapters starting with “Hi, it‘s me Abi” which was off putting.

Hard to rate. 🤷🏻‍♀️