![]() ![]() At a moment when everything in the world feels on the verge of falling apart, there seems to be a widespread cultural expectation (in the West, anyway) that serious art - the kind worthy of respect, in books, television, film or theater - is gonna make you sweat, that it should make you sweat.Īnn Patchett doesn’t want to make you sweat. The use of destabilizing narrative techniques (which often force critics to either include spoilers or to be oblique in order to avoid them) is so prevalent as to seem almost de rigueur. blurb is complete without the descriptors “searing,” “probing,” “challenging” or the like. ![]() It takes guts to write a fairy tale these days. ![]()
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