{"id":6441,"date":"2012-06-08T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/08\/tyee-summer-reads-list-includes-malarky-4\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T06:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:24:55","slug":"tyee-summer-reads-list-includes-malarky-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/06\/08\/tyee-summer-reads-list-includes-malarky-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyee Summer Reads list includes Malarky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dapper mention in The Tyee for Malarky chosen as one of their Summer Reads picks in a fine radical list of books. What a nifty write-up. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A book to read while spending that week at the cottage with your relatives you always thought were a bit, um, off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Malarky<\/em><\/strong><em> by Anakana Schofield (bibilioasis)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver author Schofield&#8217;s much lauded debut novel employs a bluntly pragmatic first person voice in explicating the gradual psychic unraveling of an Irish middle-aged woman. The language is funny one moment, forensic the next, but just when the book begins to feel a small gem of internal monologue, you realize its about everyone in the world who is driven a little or a lot crazy by their culture&#8217;s repressive notions of sexuality, identity and proper behaviour. In other words, read <em>Malarky<\/em> to either understand how your cottage-sharing relatives got that way, or to see them as not being as screwed up as you thought they were.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Books\/2012\/06\/01\/Summer-Books-2012\/\">Click here to read all the selections<\/a> (including some good local picks like <strong><em>Davie Street Translations<\/em><\/strong><em> by Daniel Zomparelli<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dapper mention in The Tyee for Malarky chosen as one of their Summer Reads picks in a fine radical list of books. What a nifty write-up. A book to read while spending that week at the cottage with your relatives you always thought were a bit, um, off. \u00a0 Malarky by Anakana Schofield (bibilioasis) [&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":[169,752,755,1097,1166],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-anakana-schofield","tag-malarky-novel","tag-malarky-reviews","tag-summer-reads","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","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=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}