Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

I’ve been waiting for something new from Anthony Marra since 2013, when A Constellation of Vital Phenomena came out. The book was so moving, so beautifully written, that I just wanted more. The thing I loved most about that book was the way that each character’s life would touch other characters’ lives unintentionally. One person’s betrayal would cause another character’s tragedy. Objects would change ownership, almost of their own volition. The stories in The Tsar of Love and Techno are connected in the same way, but they span more geography and longer periods of time than in A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. (I’m fairly sure I caught a reference to Constellation in one of Tsar’s stories.) The stories cover 1937 to 2013, Moscow to Siberia to Chechnya. The same thing happened to me at the end of The Tsar of Love and Techno that happened when I finished A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. I had to put the book (iPad) down and just breathe for a while. Once again, Marra floored me with his writing...

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