After reading Hotel Iris,it leaves a very unsettling impression on the type of relationship between a teenager and an elderly man.Is it a coming of age novel,but at the same time it starts with the restrictive life a a teenager under the control of a dominating single mother who goes to the extent of doing up the hair of her daughter in a certain way at an age when teens are rebellious and strive to break the boundaries by establishing their independence through their appearance.Is that a subconscious sign of rebellion when she could literally let her hair down by conducting an illicit affair with a man old enough to be her grandfather who has a weird fetish.There is a sickening hint of his potential for violence and he practically seems to be a sexual predator who exploits her sense of looking for a father figure who has been absent in her life for a long time.But her perverse will of submission and his fetish for sado machism is totally senseless and disgusting.Under the veneer of respectability lurks a beast with no saving grace.The style of writing is minimalistic but hints at so much more.
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