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...varied, ranging from engineers to construction workers, and he showcases his abilities as an author by adeptly assuming new voices every time. The vernacular of each of his characters adds personality to each story, while Rash’s intimate knowledge of the land and the people who live there adds depth and clarity to his work...
...bildungsroman. He doesn’t just learn how to kill people, or how to build a drug empire from the inside; El Djebena also learns how to read and write. Through his brief encounters on the outside, he also discovers what there is to live for in the real world...
...acceptable substitute for a hot meal in a dining hall, in terms of either taste or nutritional value. Since we all pay the same amount for room and board, some of us should not be relegated to cold turkey sandwiches and limp iceberg lettuce simply because we live too far away to go home for lunch...
Restrictions also make dining with residents of other houses more difficult. The one resident, one guest policy can cause problems for groups of diners that include residents of multiple houses. For example, since I live in the Quad, when I want to eat dinner with friends who live in, say, Winthrop and Lowell, the three of us have no choice but to join the crowds in one of the view houses without restrictions...
...deserved and serious indecision, before reading on.” What follows on the next page is not a novel but a love poem. When Fernández finally arrives at his novel, it is surprisingly short and just as self-reflexive, centering on a group of characters who live in a place called La Novela. In a final prologue, Fernández once again defies expectations, providing an open invitation for the reader to rewrite the whole thing...