So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Guest House is a banquet! Tragic and funny, wry and sexy, dark and triumphant... Like the main character, Melba, who wants “to sink into the bones of things,” I found myself looking at my own world in a different way, newly reminded that love is found in the glorious imperfection of things. Highly recommended.
Not long ago I obtained a pre-publication copy of Guest House. I made the wonderful mistake of reading it late one night as I stood in the kitchen, scotch in hand, waiting for the noise of the day’s events to be overwhelmed by the desire for sleep. An hour later I was still standing, marking in the margins those places that astonished me.
The characters in Guest House come to life as they careen through the hit-and-run chaos of a wildly dysfunctional family. Richardson, who has an eye for the quirky grace that shows up in the unlikeliest of places, brings such a generous and unflinching gaze to her world that I felt not just invited, but compelled to follow. In the end, her generosity rubs off; I cared deeply about her characters, and not just the innocent ones.
Guest House is a banquet: tragic and funny, wry and sexy, dark and triumphant. Like the main character, Melba, who wants “to sink into the bones of things,” I found myself looking at my own world in a different way, newly reminded that love is found in the glorious imperfection of things. Highly recommended.
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Guest House by Barbara Richardson
j.b.fuller, August 17, 2010
Guest House is a banquet! Tragic and funny, wry and sexy, dark and triumphant... Like the main character, Melba, who wants “to sink into the bones of things,” I found myself looking at my own world in a different way, newly reminded that love is found in the glorious imperfection of things. Highly recommended.Guest House by Barbara K. Richardson
j.b.fuller, February 17, 2010
Not long ago I obtained a pre-publication copy of Guest House. I made the wonderful mistake of reading it late one night as I stood in the kitchen, scotch in hand, waiting for the noise of the day’s events to be overwhelmed by the desire for sleep. An hour later I was still standing, marking in the margins those places that astonished me.The characters in Guest House come to life as they careen through the hit-and-run chaos of a wildly dysfunctional family. Richardson, who has an eye for the quirky grace that shows up in the unlikeliest of places, brings such a generous and unflinching gaze to her world that I felt not just invited, but compelled to follow. In the end, her generosity rubs off; I cared deeply about her characters, and not just the innocent ones.
Guest House is a banquet: tragic and funny, wry and sexy, dark and triumphant. Like the main character, Melba, who wants “to sink into the bones of things,” I found myself looking at my own world in a different way, newly reminded that love is found in the glorious imperfection of things. Highly recommended.