![]() ![]() If you don’t want to know, look away now, but Fowler raises important issues that are impossible to discuss without mentioning it.įowler has that ability, present in a great deal of American writers’ work, to ease you into a family situation and make you feel as if you’d known every single member personally for years. Publicity for this book prefers not to reveal the nature of the intrusion, but after thinking long and hard about it, I am at least going to warn you that I’m about to reveal what it is. But the form that intrusion takes is highly particular in this case, and its consequences for the family concerned are equally particular. In this latest work, love is again the theme, this time entwined with the family and the notion of such “stranger” intrusion. ![]() Karen Joy Fowler is best known to us for The Jane Austen Book Club, an immensely popular and intelligent novel about people looking for love. From Jonathan Franzen to Joyce Carol Oates and Marilynne Robinson, American novelists repeatedly worry away at the family state and how easily it can be disrupted, most often by the intrusion of a “stranger”, whether in the form of an act of violence, an incurable disease, or a disturbed prodigal son. ![]() If the British obsession is with class, then the American obsession is surely not with money but with family. ![]()
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