诗人帕翠莎•洛克伍德的父亲是一名天主教神父,他是钻了基督教会的空子才被任命为天主教神父。在成为天主教徒前,他是一个已婚的路德教会牧师。因此,他有资格申请到罗马获得特许,学习成为神父,并在有妻儿的情况下获得任免。洛克伍德的回忆录内容深入而幽默,她在书中写道,自己的父亲还是个“生性顽劣”的人。开始写这本书时,洛克伍德和丈夫杰森“身无分文、精疲力竭”,他们在堪萨斯城的娘家和她古怪的父母住了一年。从少女时代起,她就从记忆中迸发出沉思,直到现在,洛克伍德已被《纽约时报》称为“荤段子隐喻女王”。她什么时候开启作诗天赋的呢?洛克伍德形容“那种开窍的感觉出现时,两个单词会突然自动联系在一起,或想要结合,或者一直连在一起,那些语句会自己蹦出来。”
Barbara Gowdy, Little Sister
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Gowdy is a magical storyteller. In her latest novel, Rose Bowan, who manages her family's cinema in Toronto, begins to experience out-of-body episodes triggered by thunderstorms. She becomes another person – Harriet Smith – and experiences everything Harriet does through her own body, from sharper eyesight to satisfying sex. Harriet is a real person; Rose tracks her, while her boyfriend Victor, a meteorologist, helps research her possible condition – and forecasts weeks of storms ahead. Fiona, her mother, is falling into dementia – losing herself while Rose is "finding another self". When Harriet begins to resemble her sister Ava, who died in an accident when they were young, Rose is pulled into a vortex of memory. Little Sister is a gem, powered by Gowdy's incredible fabulist imagination. (Credit: Tin House)
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