Elegies for the Brokenhearted A Novel [Paperback]

Gorgeous prose&Hodgen builds a stunning melancholic portrait of damaged Mary Murphy in five elegies for people whose tawdry lives have shaped her own.[An] absorbing novel&Hodgens magnificent, heart-breaking journey with its moving finish is an unforgettable novel, a must-read.Knocked my socks off. Its a first-person novel told in second-person looks back at five significant people shes lost: a life told in deaths. Hodgens writing spins out dependent clauses like carefully controlled ripples of language.The protagonist is a nobody that everybody will root for.This book has heart&Christie Hodgens prose embodies the paradox of really fine fiction, which travels to the universal through the particular.Deep, dark, and beautiful, Christie Hodgens story of a fabulously flawed family reads like a quintessentially American tale.... The generational cast of quirky, yet completely believable characters, the heartbreak and redemption as time unfolds, and Hodgens biting humor and exquisite writing all add up to a tremendous novel. Book clubs: put this one on your lists.This stellar novel shows us once again that Christie Hodgen is hilarious, hugely talented, and full of luminous passion. In inspired prose, she tells the stories of those who have strung themselves around the heart of Mary Murphy, that undefeated heroine who cannot stop speaking to her loved ones, long after theyve left. Deeply, satisfyingly original&