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

Living in the Little-Space-Between in “No One is Talking About This” – Chicago Review of Books

Living in the Little-Space-Between in “No One is Talking About This” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel, No One is Talking About This, there is a line after the birth of her sister’s child which highlights the balancing act attempted in this book: “It was a marvel how cleanly and completely this lifted her out of the stream of regular life.” Lockwood’s exquisite writing aims to … Read more