Talking to Ghosts in “Passersthrough” – Chicago Review of Books

Talking to Ghosts in “Passersthrough” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Peter Rock’s latest novel, Passersthrough, is tricky business. The premise hints at mystery—a young girl goes missing in the wilderness for a week; now, 25 years later, her father wants answers—but the novel itself resists practically every convention of the genre. It reads more like a ghost story—unsettling, ruminative, impressionistic, somewhat like Jeff VanderMeer’s … Read more

Conspiracy Theories and Millennial Anxiety in “MONARCH”  – Chicago Review of Books

Conspiracy Theories and Millennial Anxiety in “MONARCH”  – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “There is no way to tell the story of a great violence,” writes Candice Wuehle in the succinct introduction to her kaleidoscopic debut novel, MONARCH. The story that follows suggests the opposite is true: there are perhaps too many ways to tell the story of a great violence.  As eerie revelations about the “blank … Read more