Set in new york city and in a buddhist monastery in rural vermont, t. The virgins is both skillfully crafted and dangerous. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, pamela erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition. The understorythe debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of the virgins is.
Set in new york city and in a buddhist monastery in rural vermont, the understory is both a mystery and a psychological study and reveals that repression and selfexpression can be equally destructive. Pamela erenss most recent novel, eleven hours, was listed as a most anticipated book of 2016 by both flavorwire and the millions. The understory the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of the virgins is the haunting portrayal of jack gorse, an exlawyer, now unemployed, who walls off his inner life with elaborate rituals and routines. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the understory. A finalist for the william saroyan international prize for writing. He is also searching, it seems, for that other part of himselfthe other half of himself.
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