L.B.īooks Colson Whitehead just wants to have fun In neon-tinted prose, Madievsky takes readers on a mystical journey from overlighted late-night hospital emergency rooms to brutalist apartment blocks in Moldova. Both struggle with the legacy of the old Soviet Union and the generational trauma that has felled their fragile mother. In a debut novel, the poet illuminates the relationship between sisters as they hang out in the darkest corners of Los Angeles. Dora Frenhofer, 73 and at the end of a modestly successful career, decides to write her final book in her own voice “for a change,” each chapter about a different person in her life, and proves to be a highly critical - and perhaps highly unreliable - narrator. Now, he turns his prodigious gifts to a novelist writing her own elegy through the scrim of dementia. Rachman’s “ The Imperfectionists” (2010) was a stunning elegy for newspaper journalism. Books Lorrie Moore’s ‘Bark’ finds grandeur in the day-to-dayĭomestic life motivates many of the stories in ‘Bark,’ Lorrie Moore’s first fiction collection in 15 years.
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