HAND ME DOWN WORLD BY LLOYD JONES, TEXT PUBLISHING, $32.95.
This is the story of a woman who is on an extraordinarily difficult, lonely journey. At first, her tale is told by the people she meets.
There’s the randy truck driver, the kind group of hunters who smuggle her across the border and the woman whose name she steals. It isn’t until the end that we hear her voice and her own version of the truth, including the events that lead to a sudden death. If you disregarded the beauty of the writing and shook up all the pieces of the narrative until they fell in the usual places, Hand Me Down World could be a murder mystery. Yet its beauty and complexity make it a masterpiece, a novel written by an artist with a devious mind. It is an original; a story gracefully told from the inside out and back to front, one that will challenge and surprise.
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