
Trenton makes
by Tadzio Koelb
Self-perceptionSelf-presentationIdentity (Psychology)FictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, psychologicalFiction, suspenseTrenton (n.j.), fiction
It's 1946 in the hardscrabble industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, a woman made strong by wartime factory work kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl, disposes of his body, and assumes his identity. The family life Abe has so carefully constructed is crumbling under the intolerable pressures of his long ruse. Desperate to hold on to what he has left, Abe searches for solutions in the dying city. Written in brilliantly stylized prose, this gripping narrative is a provocative and incisive exploration of the nature of identity, and a disturbing portrait of desperation. Print run 20,000.
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