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Bezig met laden... The Suicide Club (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)door Toni Graham
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The people in these eight interlaced stories are ?bound together by the worst sort of grief,? the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middleAmerican options: TV, rec league sports, eating out, and church. For Slater, Holly, and SueAnn, it is the night their suicide survivors group meets. They once felt little else in common, aside from a curiosity about Jane, the group facilitator, but now they understand how deeply they need each other. SueAnn mourns for her son, who hanged himself. Slater is left impotent by the loss of his father, who deliberately overdosed on pills and alcohol. Holly can't let go of her boyfriend, who shot himself. But if suicide has stolen their capacity to laugh, it has honed their sense of absurdity. Even in the darkest undertones of what her characters think and say, Toni Graham reveals a piercingly funny cast, short on patience with themselves and the incongruous pieties of daily life in the Heartland. If they weren't already Hope Springs outsiders, suicide has made sure of it. Failing to fit in, they try to change, if only for themselves: Holly joins an online dating service; SueAnn works on her vocabulary; Slater gets liposuction. They keep moving forward and backward and, when their paths cross outside of their regular Wednesday meetings, sometimes a little sideways. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Graham's writing is concise and often just plods through portions of the stories. When I say this, I actually mean plod as a positive, for that accurately describes how these characters survive day to day. The style sets the atmosphere ideally and the characters are, for lack of a better phrase, well-roundedly flat. They have chosen to live as flat and Graham rounds out that flatness so we can grasp their nuances.
This is what was once called a short story cycle (yeah, that dates me, I know) in that each story is complete yet together they tell a larger story. They are not simply linked but create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. ( )