#SundaySentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Her fiction is strictly pre-apocalyptic.
Source: Yiyun Li, “Against Aboutness: On Elizabeth McCracken’s Irreducible Fiction” (Harper’s)
I loved Elizabeth McCracken’s novel “The Giant’s House.”
You must read this review, then (it’s so thorough, and it discusses that novel, too). I didn’t realize that it wasn’t paywalled: https://harpers.org/archive/2022/10/against-aboutness-the-hero-of-this-book-elizabeth-mccracken/).