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Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero
Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero







Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero

It just seems crazy to put such personal information about yourself out there. I'm always intrigued by young memoirists- another one I know is Moshe Kasher- who is the younger brother of a long time friend. That mirrored the story of Kristin from the Dum Dum Girls- she talked about her mom in interviews but didn't write a book about it.

Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero

I don't listen to Japanese Breakfast, but I was intrigued both by the cross-cultural aspect, Zauner is Korean-American, with a Korean mom and white American Dad, and by the main story being about Zauner's mom dying of cancer while she was still struggling to put together her career in the arts.

Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero

Zauner, of course, is the performer beind Japanese Breakfast- I'm still unclear if there is anything to the band aspect besides people Zauner has picked up. It gives the most prosaic moments unexpected panache, and helps the plot leap free of the mundane realities of a 21st century book tour by a succesful author of "serious" literary fiction.ĭoes Michelle Zauner read all her online press? It is very much not beyond the realm of plausibility that I might come face to face with Zauner back stage at a music festival, so this review certainly falls into the category of, "don't say anything you wouldn't say to the subjects face the first time you meet." or at least to assume that whatever you say will be accessible to that subject. Mott's narrator protagonist has deep bouts of almost disassociative imagination, something he describes almost as an occupational hazard of a writer. The great achievement is Mott's troubled protagonist who manages to be deeply feckless in the midst of a very meaningful plot, like something you would expect from Martin Amis. Originally, from North Carolina, he is haunted by the ghost (or is he?) of a murdered African American child from his home town.

Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero

Mott's protagonist is a best-selling author on a book tour of America's great and not-so-great cities. Mott almost uncannily combines a book tour milieu reminiscent of recent Pulitzer winner Less by Andrew Greer with the sharp edged satire of Booker winner Paul Beatty to produce Hell of a Book, the 2021 National Book Award winner for fiction. This National Book Award finalist nomination win for Hell of a Book was a huge break through for American author Jason Mott, who has previously authored more or less conventional works that traverse genre fiction, the bestseller list, and literary fiction.









Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero