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Call Me Brooklyn FormalismThrough an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, Call Me Brooklyn follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. A hymn to mystery and to the power of fiction, Call Me Brooklyn meanders through a series of settings: from Manhattan to haunts of writers and artists to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past. Through an
To escape the claustrophobia of home
A young man travels from Georgia to Karabakh
Dostoyevsky
philosophizing
this apparent everyman―whom we know only as Mr
What he doesn’t explain is as thrilling as what he does
Charlie drives the narrative onward and backward
its conclusions beguiling
liked to call her "Patience Scalpel
and taking in everything from shamanic art to Bach’s Art of the Fugue
she has translated such authors as Alfred Jarry
balancing the details and the rhythms of experience