She’s a tall, grown-up, married woman now, but she was once an orphan living with her grandmother, who had taken her in when the girl’s mother disappeared. That happens sometimes — a person will just disappear.
Such strange sentences. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, a collection of Russian fairy tales, is full of stories that are full of such sentences and characters half in the real world. I’d read “The Fountain House” in The New Yorker, but bought this book without realizing that story was in here. My favorite was “There’s Someone In the House,” which starts, “There is clearly someone in the house.”
So, so weird, that kind of flat and declarative statement.
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March 4th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
I was going to pre-order but was wondering if you were going to do a book signing in the Philly area?
March 5th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Not sure, Jason. Somewhat most probably definitely in the Lehigh Valley, but I don’t think I’m exactly nationwide book tour material. I tend to mumble and talk to myself in asides.
If there is any sort of schedule worked out, I will post it.
Just come up and do a lunch ride with us sometime. They are very chatty and chill, four out of five, I’d say, these days.