Mark Sutton
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Jul 2020
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The Bookshelf · New books by Garth Greenwell, Isabel Allende and Jeanine Cummins · 24 Jan 2020
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And it absolutely does...
give you, not that I think anyone would have thought that someone trying to get across the border had it easy, but going through the individual steps and every part of this dangerous and deadly process over weeks and how difficult it can be and to learn about that from
A writer who has spoken to enough people that she does understand every bit of it.
It was extremely informative and an extremely emotional thing to read.
And I don't want to give away any spoilers, but Neruda makes an emotional and very interesting entry, or his poems do, at the end of the book, in fact, in the epilogue.
So his presence is felt throughout.
I finally got around to reading a book that came out, I think actually at the beginning of last year, called Inland by Taya O'Brett, which I believe you reviewed on the program.
But it was a wonderful book that I was so glad to read.
It's a Western and it's in many ways, it was reminiscent to me a lot of some of Cormac McCarthy's work, especially Blood Meridian, but I actually think it was...
It was better than Blood Meridian.
In fact, I enjoyed it a lot more.
I think it had a humanity that sometimes Cormac McCarthy can be lacking.
But from a writerly perspective, the language was just astonishingly good.
She is a Balkan author who fled former Yugoslavia, I believe, to come to America.
And the book is set in the 19th century and it tells –
Well, one of the two main stories is about a Muslim Balkan who has come to America and becomes a sort of, well, initially an outlaw and then someone trying to not be an outlaw whilst being pursued for what he's done.
And it also tells a very interesting history about the Camel Corps, which is a unique part of American history where the army brought these camels into the Mexican-American desert and
And he ends up becoming involved in that.
And then the twin story is about a homestead and a woman who is running a house in the sort of the Badlands and they're running desperately out of water and the husband has gone to fetch water, but we haven't heard from him in a while.
Uh, the water's down to the last bits and, uh,
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