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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel - Community Reviews back

by Anthony Marra
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Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 10 years ago
On Day 21 of the Doubleday UK meme I'm following, it's time to reveal the novel you thought you'd hate but ended up loving. http://tinyurl.com/nh2qr65 Iowa Writers' Workshop MFA. Blurbed by Ann Patchett. I can feel my fangs glisten as I prepare to savage this...and yet I ended up giving it 4.5 s...
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader
Ryan DeJonghe - The Avid Reader rated it 10 years ago
After Anthony Marra finished his first draft of A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA, he printed it out and started re-typing the entire thing. He did this after typing the second and third drafts, too. He typed this entire novel, cover-to-cover, four times in total. To say he is worthy of all the awa...
Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it 10 years ago
Set in Chechnya, in the very recent past, this is a story of connections, relationships, and survival. Haava is a young eight year old girl, who witnesses her father's abduction by the Russian authorities. Ahkmed is the neighbor who rescues her. Sonja is a trauma surgeon and the only doctor remainin...
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