Word: divorcee
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The image of a person grieving expresses a certain rawness, a singular emotional intensity that, strangely, rarely surfaces in images of the 9/11 aftermath. Artists dealing with acts of terror are often content to represent a more general sense of national grief through abstract images, like the photographs of twisted...
Unlike Stewart, Kalfus mostly refrains from judging the subjects of his comic eye: Joyce and Marshall Harriman, a fictional couple mired in hateful divorce litigation, yet still living together in non-fictional New York City during and after 9/11.
While Joyce’s female coworkers seek out “terror sex” with surviving firefighters, she stays home to change diapers—she and Marshall have two children, “their divorce’s civilian casualties”—and sulk...
Kalfus mirrors the postdiluvian upheaval in the U.S. through the battles fought in the Harrimans’ marital war. Both the commentary in Kalfus’ novel and the joy of reading it radiates from this nearly-pornographic voyeurism into the couple’s fights, the epic ?...
Unfortunately, there isn’t a clear victim in this divorce, no protagonist with whom to identify. Joyce and Marshall are so malevolently calculating, so odiously sadistic, that I couldn’t help but detest both of them.