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“The groom is agnostic but it doesn’t bother her, when it comes to his actions he’s s better Christian than most Christians she knows”

There is here than found in many a novel

Haven't guessed the twist but it feels like it's spinning its wheels. A lot of back-and-forth that amounts to filler.

Let me get this straight.

so Spider-Man came out in the early 60s, amazing research

What would you call it when 2 good-ol boy cops in rural GA in 1962 decide to pursue a black man driving a convertible at night, assuming it’s stolen?

Racist, right? That’s a given.

It is also, according to Ms. Pittard, “a complete failure of imagination.”

??? because cops should imagine any possibility before they assume the worst? I don’t get it.

Sounds good, in consideration makes no sense. AKA MFA writing

shaggy dog stories are so late-20th

favorite passage yet, the boarders camaraderie. when she inhabits her characters without explaining them her writing is most tolerable

she’s good when her characters are talking to each other

*bzzt* in your novel set in 1962 “morphed” is entirely out of place. diction much?

The public display of grief and the turn of the scene are captured nicely

bwaahahahaha

“one was not born a woman but became one.”

(a transgender sleeper agent, in 1962?) who by the age of EIGHT knew no difference between her anatomy and her twin brother’s??

has Ms. Pittard ever known a child? was she ever one herself??

“Is too much a thing?”

I’m seeing this around a lot, the “is it a thing” colloquialism. It’s anachronistic from the mouth of anybody before this decade.

Careless.

Unsure how much is fiction and how much is reportage

Yeah so um ok I don’t speak French?

Why in God’s name would a writer wish to be consumed by such a book?

Alaska is no excuse.

Sheesh this is a grim work. There is a place for its ilk but it reminds me why I’m writing the novel I am

Hard to impress the singularity of the cold when for equivalency you keep flashing back to the desert

Powerful dialogue. Two men meeting but not budging.

The world is wilder than we know

Weirdness may not be motivated

I really like the prose, but I only believe about half of it from the narrator

is part of the appeal of this genre the cycling through minutia of the trade? sheesh there’s a lot of “I did this, then I did that”

“and then some other shit happened” and it too was probably racist or classist

for the downclass minority in highbrow fiction, around every corner is another indignity and the only peace is at all-you-can-eat buffets

I get it: you’re not homophobic and neither is your main character

still can’t tell if Nick is his brother?

immediately my BS detector goes off: this opening anecdote is a Jack Handey Deep Thought.

it’s much better on the first decade of the 20th century than the seventh