Venita Blackburn’s Dead in Long Beach, California has made me think (again but also in new ways) about how we deliberately and accidentally splinter our consciousness in the face of the unbearable.
Thank you for reading, Harriet! And Dead in Long Beach, California is both inventive and haunting. I think about how human it is to deny death and also to want to reinvent someone else's life--Coral's methods are dramatic, but those impulses feel very real.
This sounds like an astonishing novel, Sarah! Thank you for this post! And for the links to virtual book events!
Thank you for reading, Harriet! And Dead in Long Beach, California is both inventive and haunting. I think about how human it is to deny death and also to want to reinvent someone else's life--Coral's methods are dramatic, but those impulses feel very real.