Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana and was raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker.
Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.
With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, and her non-fiction has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O, and The New York Times and in anthologies such as Money Changes Everything and Brooklyn Was Mine.
A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells and their sons Dexter and Elliot
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed―or untoyed with―by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.
The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls―until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true―though it’s not false, either. It takes until the book’s stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place―revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.
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3.5 到底该多信任一本小说的narrator呢?作者告诉我们其实讲故事的人掌握的权力太大了,we tell the stories we need to live. 应对trauma的一种方法就是不断告诉自己这是我的故事,并且把这个故事活出来!整体语言还行,结尾花了一些时间才彻底明白。
评分I quite like the plot structure and writing. 三重推进 Act 1掺杂了小说虚构成分 Act 2切换主人公视角并加入了先前被隐藏的信息 Coda再度增添揭露几个人物身份的线索 Talking about the whole idea of the unreliable narrators. The relevation of Karen's pregnancy is deftly handled. Act 2 is the strongest in my view - perhaps by invoking the proverbial Chekhov's gun!
评分叙事太精妙了!前半部分的美式青春读得很乏,后面渐入佳境。不同的POV来讲述,层层铺垫。你以为你看到的就是事实吗,事实到底是什么,到底有没有所谓的事实?
评分I can see why people tend to LOVE it or HATE it. I'm one of the few somewhere in between.
评分等译本。
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