![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is one reason why she's esteemed. recently about the atypical path her career took: after some years of writing novels, with a high level of quality and mixed public reception, she gave up the practice, never to return, and not missing it for the world. She was just interviewed in some horror mag. Suffice it to say, though, what bears the conception out is how the Tribe of the title have preserved themselves years after the camps and find themselves in '80s New York with a noted reluctance to leave themselves vulnerable again.īari Wood is one of those who labor in the genre who brought previous clinical and academic experience to bear in a way that helps broaden her fictional scope none of the characters seem thinly drawn - although whether they're trapped, by choice or default, in thinly drawn societal roles is another matter - and all the scares and narrative twists seem earned. It's pretty much a spoiler to tell you what it is about this novel that makes it a horror genre piece, so I'll save it, though anyone familiar with Judaic lore (no spoilers!) will probably catch on right away. ![]() Strangley, this mass-market cheapie paperback is one of the best fictional efforts I've come across in helping one not-"understand"-but-"grasp" the Holocaust: a list that'd include, for me, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Simone de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others (set during the Occupation), Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort, and, of course, Philip K. ![]()
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