Faces in the Crowd, (Paperback)

from streamsong

From a review on the reverse of the book by Laura Van Den Berg ”A masterwork of fractured identities and shifting realities, Faces in the Crowd, is a lyric meditation on love, mortality, ghosts, and the desire to transform our human wreckage into art, to be saved by creation.” A novel with three ...

from RandyMetcalfe

In a kind of revery, a young latin novelist working as a translator at a small publishing house in New York, begins a project to translate poems of another expatriate latin poet who died seventy years earlier. But her "translations" are in fact mere inventions (though the "mere" may not apply). S...

from missizicks

A woman trapped in a house in Mexico City is obsessed with Gilberto Owen in an apartment in Harlem with a dead orange tree. Gilberto Owen in an apartment in Harlem with a dead orange tree is obsessed with Emily Dickinson who is a woman trapped in a house. Both the woman and Gilberto see ghosts. B...

from albertgoldfain

Generally well-written and lively style. The overlapped narrative seems essential at some points and annoying/tedious at other times.

from AlexDraven

slight and full of echoes and ghosts, and the warped edges of the negative space around the story - achingly sad.