ELEGIES FOR THE BROKENHEARTED
By Christie Hodgen
271 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $23.95
Like Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, Hodgen roots her characters in the political and popular culture of their times. Mary’s mother is ruined, Emma Bovary style, by the “movies which produced . . . unreasonable expectations about men, romance, and the tendency for wealth and good fortune to bestow themselves by happenstance on the world’s most beautiful people.”
... the story is propelled by associative rather than linear logic, in part because the action, played out largely in places that are entirely familiar but hardly ever named, acquires a strange universality, and in part because Hodgen’s interest lies in questions of blood and parentage — of the ties that bind us together or drive us apart.
Bron: The New York Times - Sunday book review
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