AND THE DARK SACRED NIGHT by Julia Glass
Julia Glass’s latest book strikes right to the core of personal identity. How do we solidify our sense of who we are if we don’t know where we came from? In what ways can we take our place in the universe if our knowledge of our past is incomplete?
April 8, 2014
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Tags: Julia Glass, Pantheon, Vermont · Posted in: Character Driven, Drift-of-Life, Family Matters, NE & New York
SILENCE ONCE BEGUN by Jesse Ball
I have never quite read anything like SILENCE ONCE BEGUN. It’s disturbing, lyrical, original, provocative, and experimental in the best of ways. Yet it stands on the shoulders of giants that came before it: Sartre comes to mind, as does Camus.
The premise is instantly (pardon the pun) arresting. A thread salesman named Oda Sotatsu signs a confession for a crime that has baffled the Japanese authorities – eight older individuals disappear without a trace in what becomes known as the Narito Disappearances. Yet once jailed, he utters barely a word….even though we, the readers, know he is not guilty from the first pages.
January 22, 2014
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Tags: Experimental Fiction, lyrical, Pantheon · Posted in: Allegory/Fable, Literary, Reading Guide, Unique Narrative