Lindsay Stern Knihy

Lindsay Stern's debut novella showcases a fresh and haunting voice that defies traditional genre boundaries. With a unique structure of elliptical vignettes and sharp, translucent language, the narrative unfolds layers of complexity and insight. The work reflects a blend of poetry and prose, highlighting Stern's precocious talent and innovative approach to storytelling. Critics liken her style to that of established authors like Lydia Davis and Anne Carson, marking her as a significant new presence in contemporary literature.

Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is young and beautiful, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with the arrival of the college's dashing but insufferable new writer-in-residence, whose novel Prue always seems to be reading? Into this delicate moment barrels Ivan's unstable father-in-law, Frank, in town to hear Prue deliver a lecture on birdsong that is set to cement her tenure application. But the talk doesn't go as planned, unleashing a series of crises that force Ivan to finally confront the problems in his marriage, and to begin to fight - at last - for what he holds dear. This is an insightful and entertaining novel about the limitations of language, the fragility of love, and the ways we misunderstand each other and ourselves