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Marigold and Rose
Marigold and Rose: A Fiction | Louise Gluck
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Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück “Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography. Here are the elements you’d expect to find in a story of infant twins—Father and Mother; Grandmother and Other Grandmother; bath time and naptime—but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. “Outside the playpen there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what they added up to. Rain arrived, then snow.” The twins learn to climb stairs, they regard each other like criminals through the bars of their cribs, they begin to speak. “It was evening. Rose was smiling placidly in the bathtub, playing with the squirting elephant which, according to Mother, represented patience, strength, loyalty, and wisdom. How does she do it, Marigold thought, knowing what we know.” Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book follows thirteen books of poetry and two collections.
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ManyWordsLater
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Another crazy Saturday night.

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Kazzie
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This was a numerous and strange narrative. Like the closeness of the family. And the new perspective of babies!

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Floresj
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A very clever story, told by two twins who are infants. Enjoyable.

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Hanna-B

On the TBR by poet laureate

Wesleypaker @Hanna-B Hello 2y
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