Review
Old Sorrows
New York Times Book Review, pp.8-8
02/14/2021
Abstract
Physical details animate Annelises story - the sharp jab of a mothers elbow, the disturbing squish of an unclean welcome mat, a part down a scalp dividing two pigtails - as well as keen and often painful emotional descriptions: Fox takes her time staging the life that Annelise will ulti mately leave behind, chronicling minor mother-daughter conflicts, tepid female friendships, young heartbreak, the progression of courtship and marriage and, finally, pregnancy. Annelise receiving them in real time, as her parents await visas to emigrate, and Clare reading them in translation some 50 years later.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Old Sorrows
- Creators
- Claire Lombardo
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- New York Times Book Review, pp.8-8
- Publisher
- New York Times Company; New York
- ISSN
- 0028-7806
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/14/2021
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9984445563702771
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