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Family Lexicon straddles the line between fiction and memoir, capturing true moments from the author’s life with her family while also drawing attention to the nature of storytelling. Ginzburg is known for her sharp writing: the prose is “famously terse and forceful, an instrument in which the smallest things are made to seem fresh and telling,” as Peg Boyers writes in the excellent Afterword. The story is filled with moments of silence and withholding, but also explodes with outrageous playfuln
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Jan 19, 2012
SarahC
marked it as to-read
