![]() ![]() Read in sequence, the stories begin with a sense of the narrator as lost and end with a sort of homecoming. The book’s patient composition also elevates it. As the narrator continues to read his world, readers become equipped to read the book - and themselves. That self-awareness helps readers to engage with the more subtle aspects of the text. The narrator experiences each moment with an awareness earned through radical honesty and attentiveness. It demands much of the reader - not due to its difficulty, but in the unrelenting rigor of the narrator who patiently preserves the paradoxes of everyday life in their sweet and agonizing complexity.Īs in the greatest works of literature, Cleanness provides its own reader’s manual of sorts, instructing its audience on how to read it as it goes - an effect achieved through the narrator’s witness, matched by the author’s facility with language and prose. It provides rare rewards to its readers beyond the scope dared by many authors of contemporary literature. 27 at 7 p.m.Ĭleanness, the second book by Garth Greenwell (released Jan. Garth Greenwell in Conversation with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma ![]()
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