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Tag Archives: America
The Convalescent
The Convalescent is a novel by Jessica Anthony, © McSweeney’s Books 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, book review, butchering, butchers, change, communication, connection, contemporary fiction, destiny, fate, fiction, health, history, Hungarian, Hungarian history, immigrant American experience, immigrant experience, loneliness, meat, medication, midgets, mutes, novel, odd, pain, perspective, quirky, reality, transformation
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Sinners Welcome
Sinners Welcome is a collection of poetry (plus a bonus essay) by Mary Karr, © Harper Perennial 2006
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, american themes, book review, Catholicism, childhood, contemporary poetry, conversion, God, grief, loss, love, pain, poetry, power, religion, retrospective, transformation, violence
1 Comment
Autobiography of Us
Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women
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Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split is a collection of poetry by Nikky Finney, © Northwestern University Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, american dream, american history, american themes, bodies, book review, contemporary poetry, domestic space, domesticity, feminism, knowledge, labor, national book award, nikky finney, poetry, power, retrospective, rosa parks, sonnet sequence, sonnets, urban space
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Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story is a novel by Gary Shteyngart, © Random House 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged aging, America, book review, books, cheating death, consumerism, contemporary fiction, credit, death, fear of death, fiction, future, futuristic, loneliness, love, media, new york city, novel, postmodernism
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Train Dreams
Train Dreams is a novel by Denis Johnson, © Picador 2011 Oh, and a demonstration of how small and adorable this book is!
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Ameircan West, America, book review, contemporary fiction, death, fiction, forest fires, loneliness, nature, novella, pain, solitude, Steinbeck
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Water Puppets
Water Puppets is a collection of poetry by Quan Barry, © University of Pittsburgh Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, Antarctic, beginnings, book review, contemporary poetry, death, Eden, endings, Garden of Eden, guilt, ice, ideology, iraq war, long form, pain, poetry, politics, puppetry, storytelling, Vietnam, violence, war, water puppetry
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