Children and Lunatics Megan McNamer 9781625579546 Books
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Children and Lunatics Megan McNamer 9781625579546 Books
What a beautiful, haunting book. I've described it to friends as "Alice Munro meets David Lynch," and not just because it's set in Missoula, Montana (Lynch's hometown). A story of the mysteries of everyday people and everyday lives whose most mundane details become almost epic as the book nears its climax. It's still with me, alive in my imagination, months after reading it.Something really special.
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Children and Lunatics Megan McNamer 9781625579546 Books Reviews
Montana author Megan McNamer studied music at the University of Montana and ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. CHILDREN AND LUNATICS, her first novel, won the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize for 2015. Megan’s work appears in Salon, Sports Illustrated, The Sun, Tropic Magazine (of The Miami Herald), Islands Magazine, and a number of anthologies.
Megan's writing manner captures the reader’s attention immediately, not only because it is served in bite sized pieces but in the manner in which she describes the 21st century as new and fragile, the center barely holding. ‘Wars, terrorists, and hurricanes are on TV. A silent street person and a suburban mother share intimate spheres of love and grief and odd obsessions, although they barely meet. As their paths converge, an eerie world hovers, casting shadows and flickering lights, igniting fears and dreams.’
Into this tremulous territory she offers insights and moments such as the following that arrest time so that we may enter it, recognizing ourselves in the imagery.
45.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays she strengthened her core at the Pilates Palace, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays she softened her brain at the Yoga Studio, and on Saturdays she went to the university health club and spinned. Riding stationary bikes, all in a group, like they were going somewhere.
“I’m going to spin,” she’d say, and Sammy, when he was just a little bit littler and a little bit sweeter, would shout, ‘Spin straw into gold!’
Another excerpt
'Alex’s father, Dwayne, had not been in Vietnam. He’d had a student deferment and went to the university and then various other colleges for eight years, eventually becoming Director of Advancement and Careers at his matriculating school, where he never missed a game, Go Pioneers. '
Megan views contemporary tragedies and the solace we manage to find in the most humdrum AND extraordinary places. She is writing about us and we need to heed her words. Survival. Grady Harp, September 16
This book was sent to me gratis by the publisher for an unbiased review
Disclosure, I paid full price for this book. Children and Lunatics is the sort of book that makes a writer say, to hell with writing fiction, because the competition is so strong. This is an elegantly wrought, engagingly written, psychological work. It reminds me most of Paula Fox' fiction (like Desperate Characters or The Widow's Children) there is nothing extra, the suspense is sustained throughout, the prose is riveting, there's not a great deal of external action yet the psychological action is intense and true to character. Ms. McNamer glitters this book with wonderful humor (the family jewels were stolen from an argyle sock in the master bedroom!) and spot on characterizations. I defy anyone involved with a progressive elementary school not to chuckle at her painting of the Sunnyside School. That said, it tends toward the dark and would not be an ideal selection to read on the short day of the winter solstice if you suffer from seasonal affective disorder; however, that leaves 364 days on which it would be an ideal choice for anyone appreciating excellent fiction.
What a beautiful, haunting book. I've described it to friends as "Alice Munro meets David Lynch," and not just because it's set in Missoula, Montana (Lynch's hometown). A story of the mysteries of everyday people and everyday lives whose most mundane details become almost epic as the book nears its climax. It's still with me, alive in my imagination, months after reading it.
Something really special.
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