Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments
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Is There Such a Thing as Development?
"I will not be the same person i was before i read very cold people. I understood a great deal about my own parents and my own background," she said. The novel is constructed from that extreme daily detail of what it's like to be influenced by a woman who is very narcisisic, but just incapable of doing the things that a mother needs to do. "i love just hearing validation that there is such a thing as development, progress, forward."
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