On sale. TBR

I just happened to see that Mme Clinton had this book on her wish list. So rather than have the poor thing sit around, gathering dust, waiting for me to get to it, I've sent it off to her!

It was a stupedous surprise to have this arrive along with the bookring book SIghtseeing! Since in my profile I said that I adore Nancy Huston, it couldn't be any more welcome! I may not get to it right away, since book rings and book club come first, but I am really truly looking forward to this! Thank you so much for the generosity, Pooker 3!

It was a stupedous surprise to have this arrive along with the bookring book SIghtseeing! Since in my profile I said that I adore Nancy Huston, it couldn't be any more welcome! I may not get to it right away, since book rings and book club come first, but I am really truly looking forward to this! Thank you so much for the generosity

Review: Slow Emergencies (original title in French = La Virevolte) by Nancy Huston. Largely the story of Lin, a young woman whose life breath is classic ballet dance. She has a very passionate (no holds barred on the description of their sex lives) marriage to a philosophy professor, Derek. As the story unfolds, she has two daughters who upend her emotional life. She worries constantly that they will die. The first, Angela, is an easy child and through her Lin develops a fierce protectiveness and sense of wonder, little details abounding. The second, Marina, is a difficult crying unhappy kid. Woven through the story of these children achieving typical kiddo milestones is the overwhelming urge to let dance take over her life; it is stronger than any other tug in her existence. Huston's prose is riveting, her observations acute. Other characters do help build the story: there is her best friend from childhood, Rachel, who is morbidly unhappy most of the time, and Sean, who is much of the temperament of Rachel and with whom Lin feels a tremendous attraction... while he feels she is betraying her best self by letting marriage and parenthood stifle her need to express herself through dance. It is a short and powerful read, but not an easy one. I like the French title better, as it seems to encapsulate the warring emotions that take over Lin's life, but the copy I was sent was in English; Nancy Huston does her own translations, which is something I genuinely admire.

on the bench near the entrances