Helen Macdonald’s incredible memoir, H IS FOR HAWK, feels like something new and important, and without even trying to be.Īfter the unexpected death of her father, Macdonald falls into a depression. One of the biggest challenges of literature is finding an approach that feels vital and new, a way of examining such a monumental topic without falling into the tired and the trite. There’s hardly a subject more universal than the loss of a loved one. Funny, ecstatic, generous and quite literally unlike anything I've ever read before, THE INVENTED PART is a warm-hearted journey through a brilliant imagination and what a novel is capable of doing. Along the way literature, pop culture and history are thrown into a blender but handled with the most capable and deft hands because the writing, the writing, is simply brilliant. It's really about books ( Tender is The Night, Slaughterhouse-Five, Naked Lunch, plus tons more ) and writers (William Burroughs, John Irving, Philip K Dick plus tons more) and music (The Kinks, The Beatles, Pink Floyd plus tons more). And yet, this description is surely a disservice. It's almost beyond description, but it fouses on a writer, his sister and the divorce of their parents. THE INVENTED PART by Rodrigo Fresan is just one of these. Then there are the books that push the boundaries of what literature can do, books that literally change your DNA as a reader. There are plenty of novels that are innovative and thoughtful as well as beautifully written.
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