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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... nodded his head while I answered in a low , bored voice . As a family , we were vague . My mother was always in the center of her own agitation , seeming as though , far away , part of her was being chased along a WHITE BIRD IN A ...
... Nodding , nod- ding , nodding . That nodding , I must admit , gave me confidence . It was as if that nodding gave an ... nodded at how simple the mind , in all its complexity , is . Perhaps we each pictured a heart , frozen in mid - beat ...
... nodded . Her face was pointed in my mother's direction . " Can I get you a cup of coffee ? " " No , " she said too quickly and looked at her hands . They were white . Though she'd only come from the house next door , she should have ...