'I like eating cold clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few
foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic admissions likes dislikes
memories and no-brainer observations treating personal truth as unavailable - something that
must be made up and convincing. Taking cues from confessional literature his daughter's
improvised games poor internet writing and shitty AI Ed Atkins in his first work of
non-fiction equivocates between inanity and divinity ease and pain sentimentality and
sterility. An anti-memoir a list a listless blur - Flower is a highly original moving and
absurd book by one of the most influential artists of his generation formally inventive and
disturbingly of our time.
