![]() No, she just arrives-fully formed and very much alive, on the cold cemetery ground, "as though she'd dropped from the sky."īertha's arrival sets off a chain of events as inexplicable as her appearance in the graveyard: she founds a candlepin bowling alley, claiming to have invented the sport. She is not born-a woman like Bertha Truitt is, after all, too unusual to arrive in such a normal manner. ![]() This sets the tone for the rest of the tale, which is itself cunning and subtle, a carefully woven and darkly humorous account of one woman, Bertha Truitt, and the strange and lasting legacy of her fascinating and too-short life.Īt the turn of the 20th century, in an imaginary New England town, Bertha Truitt arrives. ![]() ![]() This is New England, and even the violence is cunning and subtle." "Our subject is love," writes McCracken early in the novel, "because our subject is bowling. And not just any old bowling alley, but a candlepin bowling alley, and not just any old story, but a love story. ![]() But Elizabeth McCracken ( Thunderstruck, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination) has done just that in Bowlaway, a sweeping family saga centered on a bowling alley. It can be hard, in a world with so very many books, to find something truly unique to write about. ![]()
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