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...seat and announced to the table, “This is where I’m going to be working next summer.” Fast forward eight months and 20 Italian A quizzes later. I know enough of the language to complete my biweekly “graphic novel?? assignments that concern a rabbit named Bunny who goes to Italy to learn how to cook and to write about it (as rigorous as it is original), and I’m poised to return to Italy in August as an apprentice chef to a hotel in Umbria.But...
...money in order to urge writers to break through their writer’s block. “I actually had an idea a couple of years ago—when six or seven people I knew were all in a similar place of frustration with the novel??of sponsoring a prize, of offering $10,000 of my own money who first delivered a novel,” Franzen said. Franzen also noted the potential obsolescence of serious fiction, saying that the purpose of the novel is not to “vividly bring home social conditions...
...Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm’s fatal mistake, the novel??s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life are hastily, awkwardly summarized in a handful of pages, and Silver never fully explains the impact of Malcolm’s mistake on the two brothers and their relationship. She tries to force a sense of completeness...
...demanded with mysterious urgency the night before. Gabriel obeys, traveling to Russia and taxiing over to her apartment only to find his mother dead on the floor. All similarities to Dan Brown, thankfully, stop there. Instead of the murder mystery suggested by the novel??s first few chapters, Docx gives us a dark, intriguing, thoughtful study of the ripples that emanate from Maria Glover’s death, which—to put all thoughts of a thriller to rest—is caused by a stroke. Her death and life launch Docx’s intense portrait...
...positive in Ganeshananthan’s novel. Yalini’s beloved uncle has killed many people and, before Yalini was born, threatened to kill the family of Yalini’s father. Thus, Yalini’s relationship with tradition is a complex one, simultaneously embracing and menacing.The novel??s sparse sentences and luscious imagery are reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid, who was Ganeshananthan’s English thesis advisor at Harvard. Ganeshananthan admits in her acknowledgments that Kinkaid’s “particular brand of meticulous attention continues to be the standard for which...