{"id":4030,"date":"2024-09-05T21:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2024-09-05T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:27:41","slug":"sinking-singing-by-gwynne-garfinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4030","title":{"rendered":"Sinking, Singing, by Gwynne Garfinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review copy provided by the author, who has been a friend On Here since forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a compact short story collection, reprinting Garfinkle&#8217;s work on this theme rather than attempting to be a Complete Works or even a Greatest Hits situation. In these pages you&#8217;ll find work reminiscent of her novel, <em>Can&#8217;t Find My Way Home<\/em>, in its focus on mid-late twentieth century and music through a speculative lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a quiet volume, none of the stories flashy and high-concept. What it does well is focus on small moments of yearning, epiphanies or more often longing for epiphanies that might prove elusive, because this is not a <em>tidy<\/em> collection, this is a not a collection where the protagonists get what they want at the end of each story, neatly in a bow. It is always, through all its timelines, more human than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the author, who has been a friend On Here since forever. This is a compact short story collection, reprinting Garfinkle&#8217;s work on this theme rather than attempting to be a Complete Works or even a Greatest Hits situation. In these pages you&#8217;ll find work reminiscent of her novel, Can&#8217;t Find My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}