Thursday, January 31, 2019

Rachel B Glaser - Paulina & Fran

Unsurprisingly, there are some marvels of sentences and paragraphs - surprising, cutting and darkly funny - throughout this novel of two art school friends and their discontents, including into adulthood; sneakily, Glaser also manages some feeling along the way. Paulina & Fran is slippery and operates differently than the typical novel working in this terrain, particularly in relation to character, but even allowing for that, it remains a bit insubstantial. Still, interesting; I'd read more of hers.

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