Extra Credit
Besides what you have to read, are you currently face deep in some fun-reading? Here are some Postmodernist faves of mine.
I'm wrapped up in the "Wheel of Time" series. Thanks, KB! I really need to know how Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World is going to resolve! It's a postmodern blend of fantasy, gritty reality, futuristic dystopia, and folksy love stories. Fabulism is where my postmodern heart is right now...
Last week I finished The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. This is a mash-up of secret lives, secret wells, and generational joy. I'm still not over the ending. Thank you, Monkey Pants. IYKYK.
Last year I read The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He's a well-known nonfiction writer, but this book is a Postmodernist paella of temporal distortion, historiographic metafiction, hyperreality, and black humor. This has magic, Harriet Tubman, and some of the most beautiful prose I have read.
Another book I recently read, coincidentally similar in setting, is The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. This one does with the legends surrounding America's Underground Railroad what Quentin Tarantino does with the Manson murders in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's part gritty history, part fabulism, lots of wish-fulfillment, and all terrific.
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I recently finished It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover and let me tell you, it was a rollercoaster! This book shows elements of fragmentation, temporal distortion, irony/black humor, and paranoia plays a big role in the message of the book. This story follows a girl named Lily who meets Ryle, a neurosurgeon, who clearly states he wants different things. We are walked through not only their love story but we read old diary entries of her first love, Atlas. One day she Lily into Atlas and her past comes crashing down on her, threatening the relationship she's built with Ryle. Colleen Hoover was able to pull me into story and fill me with emotions. After all the tears had cleared the ending was very fulfilling. I highly recommend thins book to everyone! This book is definitely the kind of book that everyone in the world needs to read especially with everything going on in our country at the moment. Of course, read trigger warnings!