I was in Austin today and stopped by Book People and saw on their recommended table The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia and I thought to myself: I don’t push that book hard enough on my friends and acquaintances.
The novel is brilliant. It’s experimental and deeply moving and lyrical and brain twisting and it does about fifty things I normally dislike in fiction and yet I can’t forget the book. It arrives in my head quite often and makes a mess of things.
You should read it.
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You do push it, though. Heh.
ReplyDeleteOn you, yes. But I can only afford to give out so many copies.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I've officially been guilted into reading it. Caveat: I'm determined to finish "Infinite Jest" before I pick up another book (infinite: seemingly; jest: remains to be seen). So even though it's next up, I may never actually read it. And thank you.
ReplyDeleteI'll look into it. I saw it on a bookstore shelf a while back, but didn't buy it that day.
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