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...years, he's never made anything up, any detail of fact." Wenner believes Wolfe's strenuous pursuit of precise details, both in his journalism and fiction, has produced a major body of work. "If you read it all together as one piece, you would understand the amazing modern crazy quilt and fabric of contemporary America better than [through] any other thing I can imagine seeing or reading or looking...
...pages. The result is that Classical Music for Dummies is only a few pages longer than, say, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Your In-Laws. The latter, like many of the data-lite books in both series, has plenty of filler. One whole chapter, called Crazy Quilt, reminds us that we live in a melting pot (because you never know whom you will end up marrying) and features statistics on how many Hmong are living in Wisconsin as well as a cultural-IQ quiz that begins, "Abdul, a young man from Egypt, fell in love with Italian...
...accident. A local florist is working off $275 she owed for a colonoscopy by providing a bouquet for the lobby each week. A 39-year-old housewife whose family racked up more than $2,000 in family emergency-room visits paid her final $220 by donating a handmade baby quilt...
...survive a legacy like enslavement? It takes Lizzie DuBose 20 years, most of them in an asylum, to recover from the inheritance she receives in 1974: her grandmother Grace's quilt and the diary of her great-great-grandmother Ayo, a slave. "I come from a long line of forever people," reads one entry. "We back and gone and back again." Ayo's restless spirit twice returns, once with enough violence to drive Grace from her family, and again during Lizzie's teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon...
...aging people who depend on his services. "I never counted my clients as friends--not even the ones I liked," he says. "Clients could up and die on you." So they do, and Barnaby mourns them. One of his favorites, Mrs. Alford, goes suddenly, and relatives show Barnaby the quilt with a Planet Earth design that she had hastily finished. He sees a depiction "clumsily cobbled together, overlapping and crowded and likely to fall into pieces at any moment." That is a pretty good description of the world in Tyler's fiction, a fragile place sustained by hope and love...