How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles: The making of the man
A tender novel whose meditations on the self’s uncertain parameters urge excavating the past to better understand the present
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While autobiographical in nature, Mark Bowles’s second novel does without life’s hallmark events.
“Canonically big events” don’t import meaning into our lives, according to narrator Patrick Boyd. It’s life’s borderless events “which pass unrecognised... [2081 chars]
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