This is not accidental. The physical act of reading becomes uncomfortable. You find yourself holding your breath. That is the Reid refers to—not drowning, but the experience of almost drowning, suspended in the reader’s own lungs.
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El arte de ahogarse/ A Study in Drowning : Reid, Ava: Amazon.in