What should you read next? Here are the best revised books of the week ‹Literary hub
Karen Russell The antidoteHelen Garner How to end a storyand Torrey Peters’ Deer dance All are among the best revised books of the week.
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1 and 1 The antidote by Karen Russell
(Knopf)
8 rave • 3 positive • 1 mixed • 1 saucepan
Read an interview with Karen Russell here
“Russell has built a novel supported by an elaborate embroidery of social, geological, historical and environmental research on the impact of the American Western expansion … She woves effortlessly in other characters whose unique gifts highlight the gaps of history … If it looks like a dense novel, you are only halfway. The book is threaded with more sub-stories and stories as well as characters that I cannot develop here. However, his clear narrative seizure guides the character’s reader to a character as the book takes place. The lively characters of Russell retain an element of the mystery, which speaks of the greater point of the novel. “”
–Lauren Leblanc (Los Angeles Times))
2 Deer dance by Torrey Peters
(Random house)
8 rave • 1 mixed
“Peters excels in plumbing in the disturbing heart of queer people … A great story by Torrey Peters wants to hit the face, laughing at the rare dog in the mirror, then realizing that you are excited by blood on your lips. The four rooms in Deer dance will leave you bruise, broken and want more.
–Hugh Ryan (New York Times book review))
3 and 3 Goddess complex by Sanjena Sathian
(Penguin)
4 rave • 1 mixed
Read an essay by Sanjena Sathian here
“Inventive … clever on the repetition of misery, and how pain can accede like a surrounded wall, rising to block the rest of the world … haunting and hilarious, Goddess complex is both a satire, a gothic tale, a novel of ideas, a character study. Like any individual life, the book bristles the possibilities. »»
–Ro kwon (New York Times book review))
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1 and 1 How to end a story: Collection Diaries, 1978-1998 By Helen Garner
(Pantheon)
4 rave • 1 positive
“It is putting itself at a provisional and fortune early … by a quarter of the path, I was completely in his hands … Garner has an ideal voice to express showers of precariousness and distress, others more comical than others. His prose is clear, honest and economical. »»
–Dwight Garner (The New York Times))
2 We are raking up stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine By Alissa Wilkinson
(Delivered)
2 rave • 2 positive
“Misted, insightful … has a lot of excellent details like this for the dedicated Didion fan. But its strongest sections are those that question rather than veneration. Wilkinson is superb to dissect the overlap of cinema and politics in the vision of the world of Didion … Wilkinson seems to start to aduce Didion before moving uncomfortable in a more realistic diagnosis of her, as a decline in cargo … While looking, conscientious. »»
–Charles Finch (New York Times book review))
= 2. Negligent people: a story of power of power, greed and lost idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
(Flatiron)
2 rave • 2 positive
“Starts the reader on several levels. It contains revealing accounts of behavior at the top of the company and serious accusations against certain Facebook leaders. It is a painful story of how unimaginable quantities of power and money have corrupted an organization that has started with full hope and high -mindedness. And because Wynn-Williams is a lively and funny writer, it is a very pleasant reading … The arc of history is convincing and depressing. »»
–Emma Duncan (Time))
