Another victim of misguided marketing, although nobody will be crying for SLB, since the misguided marketing led to award nominations and many goodreads reviews. The problem can be easily summed up: Franzen's blurb describes this book--about, among other things, the uncomfortably erotic nature of...
A charming book. Linked stories about a teacher. Stories move back and forth in time. Themes are complicated in lovely ways. I think it would be a wonderful book to use with highschool students. Having just finished Robert Boswell's Tumbledown, I felt it wasn't nearly so thick with characters or ...
Here is the entire second chapter of Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum:Madeleine DreamsA GROTESQUELY FAT WOMAN lives in the farthest corner of the village. Her name is Matilde. When she walks to market, she must gather up her fat just as another woman gathers up her skirts, daintily ...