Parakeet Marie-Helene Bertino, Farrar, Strauss Giroux pp. ISBN Summary A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one. · Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel, Parakeet, published by FSG in June. She is also the author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. · Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino. reviewed by Caroline Tew. Marie-Helene Bertino’s third book, Parakeet, is almost impossible to describe. In some places, the novel is darkly funny, as it points out the ordinary absurdities and hardships of life; in .
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel, Parakeet, published by FSG in www.doorway.ru is also the author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas and the story collection Safe as www.doorway.ru was the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. To read Parakeet is to walk through the Bride's memory, trauma, grief, pain, fear, and joy, antechamber after antechamber.". "Marie-Helene Bertino's fiction is miraculous: spry and mordant, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms, then twist suddenly and sting. Parakeet is a strange book in the greatest sense: it sunders reality. Marie-Helene Bertino is a rare writer — one whose wit and eloquence is obviously innate but who will quietly knock you out with the alarming importance of what she has to say." —Caroline McGregor, Buzzfeed News "[Parakeet] could not be more perfect. It was everything that I wanted bizarre, smart, heartbreaking, a funny, poignant story.
Marie-Helene Bertino’s dazzling new novel, “Parakeet,” which follows the bride in the week leading up to her wedding, often feels that way, too: Time and perspective wobble and give way. Of the internet’s chaos, the grandmother replies, “ Sounds like a giant panic attack.” In Bertino’s hands, the effect is less panic and more woozy wonder, a simultaneously hilarious and gutting exploration of trauma, loss and displacement. Parakeet Marie-Helene Bertino, Farrar, Strauss Giroux pp. ISBN Summary A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one. Parakeet is a strange book in the greatest sense: it sunders reality in sudden transformations and slippages, in the depth of its aches, in the beauty it insists upon in the face of violence, and in the powerful joy that Bertino dowses deep under the surface of even the bleakest moments of her characters’ lives.”.
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