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Jennifer Acker
Goodreads Author
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The United States
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Alice Munro, Shirley Hazzard, Mavis Gallant, V.S. Naipaul, Chimamanda
...more
Member Since
April 2019
Book Review: Exemplary Humans
JAY BOSS RUBIN
When we first witness her breakfast routine, in the novel’s opening pages, it’s quite charming: she spreads globules of milkfat, along with softened butter, onto her not-so-fresh bread, then dunks the bread in her hot, milky coffee. “The fat is rich and the old woman’s entire body tingles.” (Sometimes Natalia is “I,” sometimes she is “Natalia,” and most often she is “the old woman. Read more of this blog post »
When we first witness her breakfast routine, in the novel’s opening pages, it’s quite charming: she spreads globules of milkfat, along with softened butter, onto her not-so-fresh bread, then dunks the bread in her hot, milky coffee. “The fat is rich and the old woman’s entire body tingles.” (Sometimes Natalia is “I,” sometimes she is “Natalia,” and most often she is “the old woman. Read more of this blog post »
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Fatigue
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2019
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The Limits of the World
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2019
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8 editions
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Surrender
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2026
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2 editions
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The Common: Issue #13
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The Common: Issue #1
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2011
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The Common No. 01
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2012
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The Common: Issue #14
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2017
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The Common: Issue #5
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2013
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The Common: Issue #12
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The Common: Issue #15
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“A downpouring of immense darkness began . . . There was scarcely anything left of body or mind by which one could say, “This is he” or “This is she.” —Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse”
― Fatigue
― Fatigue
“When a relationship deepend, it feels like the melting of a stream. Wider, more fluid, sounding of happy birbles. Our life together has an openness and receptivity absent from the middle years. We laugh more readily at our foibles; we don't hesitate to ask each other for help.”
― Fatigue
― Fatigue
“Convalescence is learning to become kin not only with uncertainty but also with boredom, the frustration of non-doing”
― Fatigue
― Fatigue
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