This might be how … but I’m still wondering why? Patrick Oxtoby, the central character in M. J. Hyland’s much-lauded novel, makes a terrible mistake that alters the course of his young life. He seems to make the mistake because he can’t express himself and has been in a repressed rage due to his fiancé
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1975 and it’s no mystery why they keep re-issuing it. It’s fabulous! I’m just sorry it’s taken me so long to getting around to feasting on its delights. Dillard spends a year chronicling what she observes each day in the hills of Virginia.
“Where We Must Be” is the standout story of this impressive debut collection. The narrator, Jean, is a struggling actor who dresses up as Bigfoot — scaring paid visitors to a North Carolina nature park. Her boyfriend and neighbour, Jimmy, has given up being a postman after a fatal spot was found on his lungs.
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