http://www.edrants.com/segundo/the-bat-segundo-show-38/ A cultural podcast in tenebrous standing Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/the-bat-segundo-show-38/comment-page-1/#comment-2594 Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » 75 Books, Books #49-55 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:18:24 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=54#comment-2594 [...] Book #54 was Gina Frangello’s My Sister’s Continent. I had mixed feelings about this book. I like Frangello’s voice, her fondness for playing with taboos, and the novel’s wry commentary on Freudian precepts. I found the father to be an almost Moliere-like figure, satirically saddled with AIDS and many other problems. But I didn’t buy the twin sisters’ character transitions and I felt the book’s resolution was forced. Still, Frangello is definitely an author to watch. She has a delightfully insouciant attitude about deviance. (Podcast interview.) [...] [...] Book #54 was Gina Frangello’s My Sister’s Continent. I had mixed feelings about this book. I like Frangello’s voice, her fondness for playing with taboos, and the novel’s wry commentary on Freudian precepts. I found the father to be an almost Moliere-like figure, satirically saddled with AIDS and many other problems. But I didn’t buy the twin sisters’ character transitions and I felt the book’s resolution was forced. Still, Frangello is definitely an author to watch. She has a delightfully insouciant attitude about deviance. (Podcast interview.) [...]

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