Gay Degani

I crept down the dark hall to y room. At the door, I froze. My only refuge had been torn apart. Drawers bulged from their sockets. Clothes were heaped over scattered shoes, underwear, books. The mattress titled sideways across the bedroom, its sheets like white flags. The magazines, the photos, the scrapbook I’d pasted together by flashlight—almost everything I’d squirreled away about my mother—had been ripped apart and strewn across the floor.

Gay Degani's novel What Comes Before deserves a timely, careful reading. It is written with a defined craft in point-of-view, and Degani demonstrates the ability to extend language beyond mere communication. While reading this work, author Marilynne Robinson continued to echo in my memory.
More than a good read, this novel is a must read.

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