After a family tragedy, a man chases consolation — or is it oblivion? — by traveling through some seedy locales of place and spirit.
Early on in Hob Broun’s second novel, the mother of the unnamed narrator, a failed actress, commits...
It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters, walking corpses, eerie depictions of her very own parents, and the incessant reappearance...