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And yet this unpredictability, this textural unevenness add an organic frisson to the reading experience, making the (many) moments of sheer wit or beauty or empathy that much more astonishing. And shouldn’t that be how empathy is, after all? Astonishing? And isn’t life gratuitous, and entertainment gaudy, and some people harder to love than others? People Park is a triumph of expressionism, not the realism (whether sur-, magical, or otherwise subcategorized) we tend to expect of novelists; Malla animates for his readers the messy, uneven experience of modern life rather than rendering a precisely edited portrait of it. — Meghan Houser takes on People Park, a defense of the difficult novel by rising Canadian star Pasha Malla, in this latest addition to our reviews page: musicandliterature.org/reviews/2014/3/18/pasha-mallas-people-park
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:19:30 +0000

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