Omg, love this! Really love this, particularly your character-specific relationships to the curtsey.
Unrelated to your craft essay but worth some joy is that, I learned last week, Toibin has written a sequel to Brooklyn. It’s coming out in 2024.
Laura, I don’t recall your mentioning Alice McDermott as one of your go-to authors, but I think of her as one of the great American writers who explores the interiority of so-called ordinary women.
Love the idea of single sentences carrying the weight of a theme throughout a novel. Makes me wonder if I've missed this in other works.
Omg, love this! Really love this, particularly your character-specific relationships to the curtsey.
Unrelated to your craft essay but worth some joy is that, I learned last week, Toibin has written a sequel to Brooklyn. It’s coming out in 2024.
Laura, I don’t recall your mentioning Alice McDermott as one of your go-to authors, but I think of her as one of the great American writers who explores the interiority of so-called ordinary women.
Thank you for this post! Robyn
Thanks, Robyn! Yes, always excited for a new Tóibín! And Alice McDermott is wonderful, too!