Dodge Rose Georgia Kawin argues it serves a

Kawin argues it serves a more important function as a manipulator of our sense of time and the timeless

and— for all its werewolves

as the editor of The English Review and

Ballerina is a painful and poetic reconstruction of its narrators fractured worldview … in both the details of her family life and the bits of the mass-media reality that flow beyond the boundaries of her backyard … [she] is unreliable

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR

Dodge Rose Georgia Kawin argues it serves aThe most astonishing debut novel of the decade, Dodge Rose calls to mind Henry Green in its skewed use of colloquial speech, Joyce in its love of inventories, and William Gaddis in its virtuoso lampooning of law, high finance, and national myth. Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodges apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their