
Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver
The New Yorker: Fiction
The Chimney Sweep - A Novel About a Man and a Woman
The book is about a man who falls down a well and tries to find his way back up. The author says that by becoming a chimney sweep, in a way he's replicating the moment he was at the bottom of something round as a kid. Roxy mirroring the narrator with this sort of triangle: she has her boy friend and the husband; they're all trying yes.
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