The Gossip Columnist's Daughter
A vibe ... What he has constructed is a moody and engrossing meditation on the ephemerality of memory, the persistence of family myths and a haunting ode to a bygone Chicago. A memorable novel of the stories and people everybody has already forgotten.
Read Full Review >>
Exuberant ... Packs the punch of his short stories, dramatizing a real-life unsolved murder, both a homage to Hollywood noir and a meditation on how and why our deepest connections can betray us ... His novel derives its evocative power from the language of duplicity and disinformation, the callous ways we talk past each other, stunted in echo chambers of our making. The rest is gossip.
Read Full Review >>
Riveting, rule-breaking, genre-bending, and multi-textured ... A beautiful, yearning book.
Read Full Review >>
