![]() ![]() ![]() As roommates at Bennington College, Alice and Lucy formed a quick bond and parted ways after a mysterious accident. The book takes place in 1950’s Tangier, where a recently married couple is unexpectedly visited by the wife’s former college roommate. I picked up Christine Mangan’s debut novel, Tangerine, prior to my recent trip to Morocco. I loved this collection for the honesty and raw emotion found in each story, and am continually awed by Gay’s willingness and nerve to put her characters in difficult and necessary places. Of the crap that life throws at them every single day. The women in these stories are not “difficult,” they are survivors. Aciman writes desire so well, and he manages to capture the palpable ache of yearning with gorgeous prose.ĭifficult Women broke my heart. ![]() It’s a novel broken up into 5 vignettes (as opposed to Elgar’s 17) that center on the love life of Paul and his forays into lust, infidelity, emotional longing, and all matters of the heart. ![]() Like Elgar’s orchestral work of the same name, Aciman’s novel explores variations on a theme. Remember how much I loved Call Me By Your Name? It was so beautiful and evocative and full of longing, I was excited to pick up and read André Aciman’s 2017 novel Enigma Variations. ![]()
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