Mary Robison

Label: WordHive
Genre: Other

Besides music rattling around in my head most of the day, words take up residence there too, sentences, stories, novels. I've wanted to add stories to our offerings at 3hive for a while now and it's time to stop wanting. The arrival of Mary Robison's novel One D.O.A., One on the Way has been looming for too long. It looks ready for reading finally. The curt and sardonic Eve Broussard narrates the story of her life in post-Katrina New Orleans in quick snapshots detailing the decline of her husband's health and the pair's relationship. It's not unlike the fragmented and funny Why Did I Ever? the novel Robison scratched out on 3x5 cards, often while in her car waiting at stoplights. Both perfectly consumable novels for the clinically distracted. Tune in again next weekend for another edition of WordHive.

Why Did I Ever? [excerpt]
The Weather in the Streets [short story]
Yours [short story]

Posted by sean on 03.14.09 | Buy from Amazon, Insound
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