For me, the definition of truly great fiction is a work that makes you see something you thought you knew and understood as if you were really seeing and understanding it for the first time. And, based on that criterion, this is a fabulous, unforgettable novel.
A fantastic story. Complicated, messy. Disturbing even: Fisher uses a set-up that could, in lesser hands, have been a horrible cliche (cowboy romance, plucky pioneers, even low-budget Madame Bovary) and turns it, instead, into a fabulously written and structured story about the dynamics between complicated people, in a difficult and dangerous situation, and the stories -- or the lies -- that we tell ourselves in order to survive. The versions of those lies that we pass down, in the hope that someone, in a far distant future that we can scarcely imagine, will remember us, and understand us and our sorry little struggles.
A story about stories and how, sometimes, we make them come true. Highly recommended, and I can't wait to read it again one day.
A fantastic story. Complicated, messy. Disturbing even: Fisher uses a set-up that could, in lesser hands, have been a horrible cliche (cowboy romance, plucky pioneers, even low-budget Madame Bovary) and turns it, instead, into a fabulously written and structured story about the dynamics between complicated people, in a difficult and dangerous situation, and the stories -- or the lies -- that we tell ourselves in order to survive. The versions of those lies that we pass down, in the hope that someone, in a far distant future that we can scarcely imagine, will remember us, and understand us and our sorry little struggles.
A story about stories and how, sometimes, we make them come true. Highly recommended, and I can't wait to read it again one day.
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