photo caption: The News - Behind the News
New York Times Book Reviewby Ron Carlson "My New American Life"
by Francine Prose
306 pp. HarperCollins Publishers [excerpt] The great grinning tradition of American satire has always been healthy because this confounding country provides an abundance of jaw-dropping moments every day; moments that don't need rewriting or amplification to reveal their comic craziness. All you need is the ability to see them and then present them plainly, as if you were born yesterday, with nothing but big eyes and a sense of right and wrong. OK, maybe born the day before yesterday and in Albania, but still with that sense of right and wrong.
Francine Prose has just such a sharp protagonist in her wry novel... The person with the new American life is Lula a 26-year-old waitress from Tirana, Albania, who has been living in a shared apartment in New York and is deeply worried about being deported. Then again as she notes everyone in... America seems to be worried.
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