![]() ![]() These descriptions depict the book the way I was taught to draw a bird in kindergarten: a circle for the head, an oval for the body, two triangles for the wings. McCracken captures the twilight zone between consciousness and subconsciousness, where intuitions are not yet filed away, impulses not yet stifled … I could easily see McCracken’s new book saddled with one of those systems: this is a novel about loss and grief a novel aboutresilience and renewal a novel about a mother-daughter relationship a novel aboutwriting. The world, strange in the first place, is often made stranger by our minds. ![]() McCracken sees the elk in the middle of London, an image that perfectly encapsulates the essence of her fiction: seemingly nonsensical and yet making perfect sense. Some writers describe human habitats eloquently others write about nature with wisdom. ![]() “I wonder if this is the first time that St. Paul’s has been compared to an elk. ![]()
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