![]() Bertha is the materfamilias at the center of a sprawling multigenerational tale about a dysfunctional family and the candlepin bowling alley that Bertha builds. Thus begins our acquaintance with Bertha Truitt, a titanic force of nature. Surprisingly, however, she does not remember where she came from or how she got there. Happily, the young woman turns out to be alive. This new novel is a kind of feminist/existentialist riff on Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle." It begins with the discovery of a female body at a local cemetery in an early 1900s New England town. ![]() ![]() As evidenced by works such as Niagara Falls All Over Again, McCracken has one of the more distinctive literary sensibilities readers will likely encounter playful, inventive, and fearless, she's drawn to oddball characters and the eccentric fringes of American family life. ![]()
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