White Bird in a Blizzard: A NovelLaura Kasischke's first novel, SUSPICIOUS RIVER, was hailed as "extremely powerful" (The Los Angeles Times) and "amazing...beautifully written" (The Boston Globe). Now Kasischke follows up her auspicious debut with mesmerizing story of youthful passion and loss of innocence. When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been "becoming sixteen" - falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex - her mother has been slowly withdrawing. As Kat and her impassive father pick up the pieces of their daily lives, she finds herself curiously unaffected by her mother's absence. But in dreams that become too real to ignore, she's haunted by her mother's cries for help. Finally, she must act on her instinct that something violent and evil has occurred - a realization that brings Kat to a chilling discovery. Like SUSPICIOUS RIVER, which The New Yorker described as "by turns terrifying and ravishingly lyrical," WHITE BIRD BLIZZARD evokes works of Kathryn Harrison and Joyce Carol Oates - and confirms Kasischke's arrival as a major literary talent. |
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... hair , you guessed it , is pure white now , like a white wig on a Styrofoam head , the kind in the window of the wig ... hair , which he parts in the mid- dle , combs back over his ears . His hair is stuck in the sev- enties , as if he ...
... hair . " Kat , " she'd say after my bath , standing in the door- way as I toweled myself , steam obscuring us , as if we'd just stepped together into a Hollywood set of heaven , " let's do something with that hair . " In that heavenly ...
... hair stood away from my head as if it were offended , but as the day wore on , it would settle down , and my mother would gaze across the dinner table with an annoyed expression on her face . She'd look at my father , and then at me ...