![]() But McCracken’s ironic perspective, her humor and her deeply humane imagination never desert her. ![]() is jumpier, twitchier, a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, creating what McCracken calls a 'genealogy,' occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious. McCracken refuses to distinguish between the absurdity of comedy and the absurdity of tragedy. Humor illuminates her work, revealing things clearly that we might have overlooked. ![]() Always, though, shining through the carefully, beautifully painted grays, is the clarity of McCracken’s humor, bright and invigorating, like flickers of sunlight. ![]() Like a pinbody, Elizabeth McCracken steadies her constellation of characters, and readers watch as fate rolls their way, knocking them sideways, sending them flying into the gutters or skimming past them, missing them altogether. ![]()
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