Fieldwork redux

I’ve just looked over my list of this year’s reading so far, and I have to say, this has not been the year of fabulous debut novels that last year was.  I don’t mean that no fabulous debut novels have come out this year, just that I haven’t read many yet.  (The first one I read this year, Janna Levin’s A Madman Dreams of Turing Machineswhich came out in 2007—still far out-paces all the new stuff I’ve read since.  But to be fair, the TBR stack is still toppling.)  Anyway, thinking about last year’s great reading bounty reminded me it’s time to pressure you again: Have you read Mischa Berlinski’s Fieldwork YET?  If not, take this as a friendly shove to get thee to the library (us Ohioans are particularly considering our library patronage these days in light of threatened budget cuts) and check this out today.  To (re-)whet your appetite, I refer you to my original comments:

“The narrator of American journalist Mischa Berlinski’s first novel Fieldwork is an American journalist named Mischa Berlinksi. When Berlinksi (the fictional one) is tipped off to a suicide in a Thai prison, he finds himself compelled to investigate a conflict between an anthropologist and a family of Christian missionaries that, decades ago, led to murder….” Read the rest of my review.

16. July 2009 by Mindy
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