Odink Aja itibaren Dhok Qazi, Pakistan

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2019-04-10 22:41

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As strange as it feels to say, this book reminds me a little bit of Milan Kundera's _Laughable Loves_. It's strange to say because Almond is a young guy who lives in Boston and doesn't share much of the formal writing style or the philosophizing that is characteristic of Kundera, and he lacks Kundera's level of cruelty in his sense of humor. Perhaps the resemblance is because this book is also about love, sex, and the risible failures that accompany preoccupation with them. As Almond's narrator (ahem, cough, a first person narrator named "David" appears in almost all the stories) says in the story "Run Away, My Pale Love: "What we want is the glib aria of disastrous love, which is, finally, the purest expression of self-contempt." I had a hard time deciding between 3 and 4 stars. When he's at his best, Almond gives riveting descriptions and makes me feel like I almost understand what it feels like to be a young liberal guy working on the Hill and dating a GOP staffer named Darcy ("How to Love a Republican"). The story "Among the Ik," about a man trying to fortify relationships with his adult children after his wife's death, made me cry. (If you've been reading my reviews, you can see crying scores big points here. Beware sentimentality.) At his worst, Steve Almond is posing questions about male romantic and sexual confusion that seem overplayed, and, as a woman, slightly irritating. "Geek player, Love slayer," the only first person story told from a woman's point of view, made brave attempts at flipping the perspective, resulting in a mixed bag of success and failure. I would like to see him branch out more and my understanding is that he has been. These stories are all pre-9/11 and maybe that has something to do with the (I-hate-to-call-it-this-but) triteness of the overarching theme. (Originally published in 2002.) However, I would completely agree with the Seattle Times blurb on the front cover: "The coolest and freshest collection of short stories I've read since the 1980s." Um, except that I read those '80s collections in the '90s or '00s. But, point being, he's an exciting voice. One to watch, for sure.

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