Gae Polisner is the award-winning author of The Summer of Letting Go and The Pull of Gravity. A family law attorney and mediator by trade, but a writer by calling, she lives on Long Island and swims in the open waters of the Long Island Sound.Polisner's new novel is The Memory of Things.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:
I just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, which absolutely blew me away writing-wise from its first compelling sentence:Visit Gae Polisner's website.
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Oh, how I wish I wrote that and pretty much every other sentence in the book.
The story centers on a woman whose staid life falls wide open when she happens upon the unexplainable: the migration of millions of monarchbutterflies to her family’s failing Tennessee farm. The book is a magnificent musing on marriage, self, politics, education, the environment and more. I picked it up because I read so much YA for my own writing purposes that I miss and crave to read more adult fiction.
It had been years since I had read Kingsolver but remembered finding her brilliant then (The Poisonwood Bible) and found her even more brilliant now.
Think I may have to go on a BK bender this fall.
The Page 69 Test: The Summer of Letting Go.
The Page 69 Test: The Memory of Things.
--Marshal Zeringue
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