The Waiting on Wednesday concept is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog. It's a great way to share information about a forthcoming title that is on my radar screen with other readers.
Today's anticipated book:
See Now Then
Publication Date: February 5, 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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From barnesandnoble.com:
In See Now Then,
the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in
ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This
piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time
operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid
inhabits each of her characters—a mother, a father, and their two
children, living in a small village in New England—as they move, in
their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as
she writes, “the present will be now then and the past is now then and
the future will be a now then.” Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then
is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear
what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the
end.
Since the publication of her first short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River,
which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has
demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface
of things. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world
that is both familiar and startling—creating her most emotionally and
thematically daring work yet.
My thoughts: I am drawn to books that examine marital and familial relationships in depth over time, and look forward to this particular novel--with its intriguing title--from a renowned writer.
Enjoy life with books.
Catherine
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These kinds of books are my favorites, too, Catherine...I can't seem to get enough of them! I'm adding this one to my list.
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