![]() ![]() Her 2008 memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, was an unflinching account of losing a child The Giant’s House, her acclaimed first novel in 1996, was an oddball romance infused with melancholy. The longtime Austin author and University of Texas professor - whose roots in the Texas literary community are so deep that three people I asked to write this review turned me down on account of knowing her too well - has always walked the line between beauty and loss. ![]() That thunderbolt of a sentence opens Elizabeth McCracken’s new novel, Bowlaway, and sets the tone for what’s to follow: a story equal parts sorrow and wonder, magical realism and cold, hard reality. “They found a body in the Salford Cemetery, but aboveground and alive.” ![]()
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