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Patricia Chao
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Pearl Abraham's remarkable new novel opens with a set of keys accidentally dropped down a storm sewer, the quest for which takes the reader into a narrative wonderland that rivals Alice's adventures down the rabbit hole. At a burial site in the Ukraine, in a Chasidic community in upstate New York, at a bluegrass festival, and at a computer lab at MIT, stories are created and re-created and melded, ending in a surrealistic tour de force. What makes The Seventh Beggar such a delightful read is the sheer bravura and originality of its storytelling. In this dialectic between past and present, tradition and modernism, religion and science, who we were and what we are becoming, Abraham proves on so many levels that it is the human imagination that will be our salvation.
Submitted Apr 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments