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Michael Cumella, dressed in 1920s garb, laid his old Victrola record player down among the tombstones and turned to the small tour group assembled under the towering trees at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Jul. 28 2021 @ 7:46pm
Michael Cumella, aka DJ MAC, speaks through a vintage megaphone near the gravesite of Nat M. Wills, a vaudeville star of the early 20th century known as The Happy Tramp at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx on June 27, 2021. Wills was among the jazz and vaudeville greats included on a tour led by Cumella. (AP Photo/Julia Rubin)
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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Dana Spiotta s novels have been shortlisted for most of the major literary awards. Her latest novel is called Wayward. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says it s a novel about one woman s extreme response to the pervasive low-level panic that marks our own time.
MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Dana Spiotta s new novel, Wayward, is about a 53-year-old woman named Samantha - Sam - Raymond who s going through menopause and becomes a little unhinged. She leaves her husband and her teenage daughter in the suburbs of Syracuse and impulsively moves into a dilapidated arts and crafts bungalow in a crumbling downtown neighborhood of that city. If this premise sounds melodramatic, that s not the kind of writer Spiotta is.
One Woman Takes A Wayward Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel
Dana Spiotta s new novel,
Wayward, is about a 53-year-old woman named Samantha Sam Raymond, who s going through menopause and becomes a little unhinged. She leaves her husband and her teenage daughter in the suburbs of Syracuse and impulsively moves into a dilapidated Arts and Crafts-style bungalow in a crumbling downtown neighborhood of that city.
If this premise sounds melodramatic, that s not the kind of writer Spiotta is. As a long-time fan, I went back and looked at the reviews I ve written of Spiotta s earlier work: In every review, I ve used the word smart. Spiotta is one of the most alert, ambitious, nuanced, and, yes, smartest of our contemporary novelists.
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