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Lili Is Crying

Ten pages in, I was emailing everyone I could about the book. It felt electric and urgent, as if Bessette should have long been in my canon, with Ingeborg Bachmann or Elizabeth Hardwick, Lynne Tillman and Annie Ernaux ... Darkly funny .... Beautiful, brutal ... Stark ... Shocking ... Bessette defies novelistic time ... Lili’s simultaneity feels to me closer to the truth, or closer to the world we inhabit now ... Writing cannot contain the pain of life, so Bessette breaks the sentence, shatters it, and finds a new language ... In [Basette], I find the form to fit our ongoing present.
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Dialogue and deliberation blur together, and there are moments where it is hard to know if a character’s most vicious (or most vulnerable) inner thoughts have been revealed for all to hear ... Bessette’s language...is musical, descriptive, and heavy on imagery.
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Bessette’s prose is prickly and snappy ... Perhaps Lili is Crying...will be the one to revive [Besette's] reputation.
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