The new novel “Very Cold People” has a fairy-tale quality, xwaldie writes. “The book’s symmetries, prototypical figures, and brutality heighten the Grimmish mood. You half expect the characters to be devoured by wolves.”
,” a kind of self-quoting commonplace book, reaffirmed the author’s interest in the aphoristic fragment. Full of dictums like “Inner beauty can fade, too” and “You might as well start by confessing your greatest shame,” it was mostly about her attempts to work. Manguso’s method is to break narrative into wisps of inner life and bits of observation. She marshalls the means of poetry for essayistic ends, pursuing not the finished thought but the feeling of thinking.
“Very Cold People” finds Manguso recommitting to this logic of substitution. What’s new may be her suggestion that such logic is regional: the signature of repressed New England minds. For Ruthie’s community, replacing a freightedis more than a psychic process or an aesthetic sensibility. It’s a way of life. And Manguso seems particularly caught on how the threats that are ushered out of sight in Waitsfield refuse to stay hidden. They slosh and seep; they infect the surfaces that conceal them.
We know before we know that Officer Hill is dangerous. We know in the same partial, dreamlike way that the whole town knows. In this sense, Manguso’s writing approximates Waitsfield’s spirit, allowing her to weaponize the poetic principle that the words uttered in lieu of other words are never actually empty. This rule is especially clear when Manguso applies it to the apparent blankness that is the color white.
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