{"id":6216,"date":"2012-04-28T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T06:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2012-04-28T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T06:23:36","slug":"malarky-is-like-nothing-else-and-what-everything-should-be-kerry-clare-reviews-malarky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/04\/28\/malarky-is-like-nothing-else-and-what-everything-should-be-kerry-clare-reviews-malarky\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMalarky is like nothing else, and what everything should be,\u201d Kerry Clare reviews Malarky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote Malarky I chose a rotating point of view, I wanted that 360 degree circle, in close up, on one woman. I wanted one ordinary woman to matter, so I committed to her in my prose in an unremitting, relentless manner. I called her Our Woman to complete that sense of rotation as I wanted the reader to feel ownership over her or to possess her. To be engaged in her life like you might follow a favourite sports team (to cheer for her, to despair for her) or something you&#8217;re passionate about and long to have intimate knowledge of. (I should say that I learn so much about this book from readers, their responses make me aware of things I&#8217;d no notion of &#8212; the book forms new or unnoticed shadows.)<\/p>\n<p>I never anticipated my novel would be embraced and understood with this same 360 degree wholeness. It is a great privilege to be understood, that&#8217;s all I can say about Kerry Clare&#8217;s careful and engaged reading of Malarky. Please click on this extract to read the entire review.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picklemethis.com\/2012\/04\/16\/malarky-by-anakana-schofield\/\"><em>Malarky <\/em>is a journey beyond the limits of love, an equally sad and hilarious portrait of motherhood.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picklemethis.com\/2012\/04\/16\/malarky-by-anakana-schofield\/\">\u201c<em>Malarky<\/em> is like nothing else, and what everything should be,\u201d is something I wrote down this weekend. First, because it\u2019s as funny as it\u2019s dark, and also because it dares readers to be brave enough to follow along an unconventional narrative. Though the winding path is only deceptively tricky\u2013 Our Woman\u2019s voice is instantly familiar, and the shifting perspectives remain so intimate and immediate that the reader follows. Consenting to be led, of course, which is the magic of <em>Malarky<\/em>. This is a book that will leave you demanding more of everything else you read.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote Malarky I chose a rotating point of view, I wanted that 360 degree circle, in close up, on one woman. I wanted one ordinary woman to matter, so I committed to her in my prose in an unremitting, relentless manner. I called her Our Woman to complete that sense of rotation as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[165,169,675,748,752,755,916,990],"class_list":["post-6216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-an","tag-anakana-schofield","tag-kerry-clare","tag-malarky","tag-malarky-novel","tag-malarky-reviews","tag-picke-me-this","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}