![]() This writer details her revision process with her novel about Eleanor. Interspersed with the third-person narration of Eleanor, Moschovakis adds an unexpected first-person voice: the writer behind Eleanor. When one is female and reading of female trauma, especially one tinged with guilt and self-blame, that’s perhaps our go-to response.īut Moschovakis resists and questions this reaction, and she does it with a bit of structural play that’s exciting and shocking. This thing also haunts Eleanor when she breaks her routine to track down her computer thief, take drugs with a commune in upstate New York, and finally move to Ethiopia to work in a Rimbaud museum.īut this thing, the “thing that happened-that she had caused to happen, or that she had not caused but merely not prevented from happening” is never named.Ī few pages in to the novel, I assumed that “it” would eventually be named rape. This thing permeates Eleanor’s daily routine of teaching, reading, and wandering her Brooklyn neighborhood. ![]() Something has happened to Eleanor, the thirty-nine-year-old teacher and writer at the center of Anna Moschovakis’ debut novel. ![]() Review by Amy Lee Lillard // September 9, 2018 ![]()
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