· The following is excerpted from The Shame, the debut novel by Makenna Goodman, which incorporates fairy tales and bedtime stories into the story of its protagonist, Alma, as she recounts her decision to leave her family on their remote Vermont homestead. Makenna Goodman lives and works in Vermont. There once was a little boy who lived on a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. · Through its wry, incisive, hauntingly candid voice, Makenna Goodman’s debut novel The Shame reveals both the absurdity and inescapability of these expectations of motherhood. Alma—this slim novel’s smart and sardonic narrator—is frustrated with the tedium of raising her two children on an isolated Vermont www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. Neatly written and gilded with stunning lines, The Shame is an unblushing proposal of what lies beneath the observer and the observed, the nuclear family, the tranquil smile of a housewife’s face as she slowly gives pieces of herself away every day. A contemporary fairy tale with a warning.”―/5(61).
The Shame. The following is excerpted from The Shame, the debut novel by Makenna Goodman, which incorporates fairy tales and bedtime stories into the story of its protagonist, Alma, as she recounts her decision to leave her family on their remote Vermont homestead. Makenna Goodman lives and works in Vermont. The Shame is as exacting and defiant, and at times, as existentially gutting. I loved it." —Adlai Yeomans, White Whale Bookstore in BUZZFEED'S "38 Great Books Recommended by Our Favorite Indie Booksellers" Makenna Goodman's debut novel The Shame is a unique and compelling story about ambition and motherhood, set within pastoral. Makenna Goodman. Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame, which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of , a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a www.doorway.ru Book Club Pick, and more. Interviews, words, and work have been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, Electric.
The Shame Makenna Goodman Makenna Goodman. What if you could change your life? Would you do it? How would you do it? Alma and her family live close to the land: they. The Shame is as exacting and defiant, and at times, as existentially gutting. I loved it.” —Adlai Yeomans, White Whale Bookstore in BUZZFEED’S “38 Great Books Recommended by Our Favorite Indie Booksellers” Makenna Goodman’s debut novel The Shame is a unique and compelling story about ambition and motherhood, set within pastoral Vermont. It follows Alma, a wife and mother, who lives an idyllic life raising chickens and making maple syrup. The Shame Makenna Goodman. Milkweed, $16 trade paper (p) ISBN Buy this book. Goodman riffs on middle-class motherhood angst in her probing debut.
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