I’ve reviewed Lindsay Stern’s debut novella over at Ploughshares. Here’s how the review begins:
What: a debut prose-poem novella
Who: the eponymous town of shadows
And: its cast of shadowy characters, including a rug doctor, a lepidopterist, bureaucrats, a bodiless mayor speaking from a gramophone that sputters ash, a child with an hour glass and a white balloon who might be god, etc.Where: mirrors, shadows, bell jars, and graves
When: see “where”
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