Made up of short stanzas told from the voice of a young Turkish-German girl, Wir wissen, wir könnten und fallen synchron - in my approximate translation We know we could, and fall in unison - by Yade Yasemin Önder is a story in process about finding oneself.
At a certain extent, all stories do include a personal search; even when we are writing about someone else we are sharing through our mind and wordings. Thus, identity is made of different layers, and our character - who is the main storyteller, whose thoughts are the only source of information and reflection about the reality - is struggling with more than one identity issue. She has eating disorder and is trying to figure out the world of relationships with men, more or less young.
The memories are set into spontaneous timeline, following their own pattern of recognition and rememberance. The way in which the flow is set to develop in this book is taking similar turns, hence the feeling of time past that usually accompany the writing. The obsessive focus on describing certain circumstances - like the animals in the zoo, all of them - is like an obsessive effort to fix something, to say everything about something, to remember it all - and those who went through eating disorders may recognize the pattern.
I enjoy at a certain extent the reading and thinking about the book, but it does not have a aim going beyond what it really promise to achieve and this may also be a perfect setting for a story down the memory lane.
A special sidenote for the fantastic cover, both in terms of colours and the image content.
Rating: 3 stars
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