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The Groundsmen by Lynn Buckle
What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
The Years
by Annie Ernaux, Alison L Strayer
Marzahn, mon amour by Katja Oskamp
Jo Heinrich (Translator)
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Boris Dralyuk (Translator)
“I am an ambling rambler.”
[An example of the author‘s attention to rhythm and rhyme in the prose of the tagged novel.]
pickWhat Willow Says has many similarities to a classic I adore—Tove Jansson‘s The Summer Book: a warm, intense relationship between artist grandmother & exuberant granddaughter; told in vignettes; melancholic with grief over the death of the child‘s parents, yet luminous with the natural world & discovery. So of course I love this new one too. It is set in Ireland, the orphaned child is deaf & the prose sings with poetic conventions. ❤️
She already knows the slow, steadfast way an oak grows or how eucalyptus rushes to the sky in the fight for light, how aspen quivers, and ivy gropes.
And I swear to god she makes up some sign which both intonates, and says, that the pines are brushing their sorrows against one another. No spoken words detonate feelings quite as deeply as these movements of hers. I have tried convincing fellow writers to watch the beauty of sign language poets. She surpasses them in signing her loss. She signs the trees singing.
#deaf
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