Before writing some of the most groundbreaking novels of her generation, Margaret Atwood published several excellent volumes of poetry. Recently, there has been something of an explosion in acclaimed works of prose from writers who first published as poets. His wife, Genevieve, is a schoolteacher who keeps her manic tendencies in check with pills from a physician named Dr. Even the metafictional threads embedded in “The Transition” resist delivering the revelations one expects from invented texts woven into a novel. With so many excellently executed subversions of expectations, this was a disappointment as in the rest of the novel, Kennard deftly questions the dynamics of heterosexual marriage.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 11, 2018 22:52 UTC