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BURN
Fiction. Crafted with echoes of the Adam and Eve myth, set amidst the sexual and political repression of the 1950s, BURN revisits familiar narratives of McCarthyism, Jewish socialism, and pedophilia, but is told from the rarely heard perspective of a menopausal immigrant woman. Jennifer Natalya Fink has received the Dana Award In the Novel, STORY Magazine's Short Fiction Award, The Georgetown Review's Fiction Award, and the Billy Heekin Foundation Award.
- GenresFiction
216 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2003
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February 27, 2012
I should have followed my gut instinct and stopped reading at page 10.
Instead, I slogged through this incomprehensible book, feeling that I was missing the point the entire way. I could handle the sex between the main character, 53, and the boy (13?15?16? who knows....), but when she started thinking he was a machine implanting listening devices in her vagina.... Was the book about insanity? McCarthyism? Pedophilia? Can't say I know, or care.
Instead, I slogged through this incomprehensible book, feeling that I was missing the point the entire way. I could handle the sex between the main character, 53, and the boy (13?15?16? who knows....), but when she started thinking he was a machine implanting listening devices in her vagina.... Was the book about insanity? McCarthyism? Pedophilia? Can't say I know, or care.
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