Garner
Book description
"An elegant, luminous, moving work of lyric prose. Every page shimmers."-Carole Maso
"Fiercely imagined, alive with incandescent imagery, Kirstin Allio's Garner is a memorable debut."-John Burnham Schwartz
Landlocked, sail-shaped Garner, New Hampshire, is a town delineated by its Puritan ethics and its "Live Free or Die" mentality. Like the forbidding…
Why read it?
1 author picked Garner as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel is haunting, poetic, dense, and exquisite. It is centered around a small town in New England and wends and weaves through the strange and terrible things that happen there. Allio's writing is exquisite and melodic, and while this book nominally takes place a century ago, in so many ways, it frighteningly and fluently depicts today's world.
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