Question: How can we capture the complex drama of human existence — its triumphs and defeats, its crossroads, vicissitudes of the heart, major and minor setbacks, all the good, the bad and the meh– and reduce life’s richness to a tweetable size? Answer: We can’t. But we can read Stephen Thomas’ The Jokes, and that may […]
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In Conversation: Malcolm Sutton talks with Carellin Brooks about her new novel One Hundred Days of Rain
Carellin Brooks’s acclaimed new novel One Hundred Days of Rain chronicles an unnamed narrator’s struggle to rebuild her life in the aftermath of a violent breakup. Set in the profoundly rainy city of Vancouver, each short, elegant chapter (99 in total) is a rainy day, or a rainy moment of a day in the life of the unnamed […]
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