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Enter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and complacently married to Adam. "Now you know," she says. "Our names really didn't bother me that much until the mail started arriving addressed to 'Adam and Eve Broussard.'" He's just been diagnosed with a grave illness and gone back to the palatial family home where his parents reside. It's all just fine with Eve—or so she tells herself at the beginning. But standing left of center in this still-prosperous but mortally wounded family does not get easier as the weeks wear on. As she negotiates her way around the anger of Adam's despised twin brother Saunders, maintains her friendship with his beautiful and volatile wife Petal, and protects what's left of the innocence of her niece Collie, Eve finds more than the Louisiana heat oppressive. Effortlessly smart and deliriously unpredictable, One D.O.A., One on the Way will keep you guessing until the last page.
The novel's see-sawing between laughter and despair captures the hysteria of the moment and the schizophrenia of the times, but also finds an under current of optimism, buried deep but rising strong, that carries Eve and the reader forward…Mary Robison's work has always felt like a glorious amenity, but One D.O.A., One on the Way is a powerful necessity.
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reviewed One D.O.A., One on the Way on February 24, 2012 One D.O.A., One on the Way
(from the diary of lil boogie, 1/21/2013)
...Mary Robison makes a compelling case for New Orleans, if your mind is rotting water pipes too. I'll insist to her that rotten urinary tracts also pose some of the same problems.
I wonder where she lives and can I just go there. I can find out where she's tenured and I can just roll the Sisyphean rock of my grad student debt into an MFA on emotional dissonance and short paragraphs and women driving on southern byways at night.
I can smell the death in me, cause it's all related to the evil, evil shallows and depths of my own inner byways. I can't believe my car exploded on Christmas Eve. And exactly 16 years to the second, probably, that I got my first period. I do not believe these incidents are at all related.
**OLD REVIEW**
(not as good)
first read 2/22/12 to 2/23/12, physical copy from HPL.
should i create a new shelf "from the henrico library"? i joined just to get this book. i go to varina, cause i am obsessed with the way you go through that train trestle from the dense city and get spit out right into blazing country.
this book made me want to move to new orleans cause it's described like tama janowitz describes new york in the 80's.
also i am loving mary robison's "writer's block" phase where little vignettes are written index card length and then she arranges them into narrative.
write more novels babe. i need them!
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