Locomotive Creative Group Creative Group itibaren Platanovrisi 240 01, Yunanistan itibaren Platanovrisi 240 01, Yunanistan

I finished this volume inside a tent in Acadia National Park after I had chopped some wood with my bare hands. There are plenty of comeuppances and turnabouts in this first book, and the right amount of poetry contests. The whole novel seems like a collection of interlocking short stories. So you only get to know each (minor) character as well as you get to know a short story character. But a lot can happen within the mansions! This volume is notable for a magic mastubatory mirror, the supposedly glossed-over "incest-hanging" episode, and good times and good friends in the classroom.

Creeepy. Not really a surprise ending here for anyone who has ever read a mystery (or a truckload of them), but the story is just oozing with creepiness and desperation. Basically it is about two sisters and their elderly uncle living in their closed up mansion years after the rest of the family had been murdered. SOMEONE put arsenic in the sugar bowl. Jackson tells the story in the present but makes one or two sentence references to events of the past that cast light repeatedly on what was really going on in that house. Very moody.

this book kind of annoyed me, for some reason. it has a really interesting subject, and i like all the books that she taught about, but for some reason the literary criticism part of the book just didn't mesh well with her descriptions of day-to-day life. in fact, i feel like she never really brought the realities of life in iran were kind of lost in the midst of all her proselytizing. disappointing.