"As in all memoirs of any depth, the answers here are bound to be both yes and no, but for some reason this ambivalence seems to go farther than usual in Perks's case—to the point that her story begins to seem as pointless to the reader as it does to the author herself."
A somewhat precious account of a run-of-the-mill bohemian childhood, by novelist Perks (We Are Gathered Here, 1996).
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"Perks tries hard to break new ground, and yet her first novel, like a literary beast of burden, is overloaded with good intentions."
Family history and feminist themes combine in an earnest but strained debut—about women's struggle for selfhood at the turn of the century.
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