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Loading... Erasedby Jim Krusoe
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Abandonment, life, death, and, oddly, Cleveland are explored in the hilarious second installment of Jim Krusoe's trilogy about resurrection.In Erased, Krusoe takes on a dead mother who mysteriously sends notes from the beyond to her grown son, Theodore, the owner of a mail-order gardening-implement business. "I need to see you," the first card reads. Theodore does what any sensible person would: he ignores it. But when he gets a second card that's even more urgent, Theodore leaves his quiet home in St. Nils for a radiantly imagined Cleveland, Ohio, to track down his mother. There, aided by Uleene, the last remaining member of Satan's Samaritans, an all-girl biker club, he searches through the realms of women's clubs, art, rodent extermination, and sport fishing until he finds the answers he seeks. No library descriptions found. |
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Krusoe is an interesting writer, deserving of a wider readership, and "Erased" is an often hilarious book, particularly in it's portrait of Cleveland as a peculiarly rundown and mundane utopia, filled with artists and social groups, especially women's groups. Krusoe is more interested in story and image than plot, but "Erased" proceeds as a sort of parody of a murder mystery with supernatural overtones, and is a swift read. The narrator's voice is a great achievement -- the narrator is deadpan, naive, optimistic, lost in a strange world.