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Small town, many stories in âAmerican Deliriumâ
A dizzying, delirious new novel
By Max Winter Globe Correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 6:50 p.m.
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âThe day he found a woman hiding in his closet, Vik had dreamt about winning a Ping-Pong tournament.â This first sentence of âAmerican Deliriumâ raises the novelâs implicit questions: What is life but a series of illogical juxtapositions, followed by our attempt to make sense of them? And without a guarantee of success, only small notches on a belt that goes on forever? In Argentine novelist Betina Gonzálezâs unsettling, fantastical, and often hilarious English-language debut, characters in a small midwestern town find themselves facing inexplicable events they canât entirely handle. None overly remarkable but all quite human and indelible, these figures draw us into their struggles as each tries to right an u