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In Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley Takes Aim at Gentrifying Cities

In Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley Takes Aim at Gentrifying Cities Esquire 5 hrs ago Hot Stew, describing a character s pleasant feeling of his own largesse as he doles out a generous tip. Anyone living in a capitalist system like the one Mozley lambasts in this novel knows one thing to be true about wealth: it all too rarely flows downward. Four years after the publication of her Booker Prize-nominated debut, Elmet, Mozely returns with her sophomore effort in Hot Stew, a sprawling, ambitious work of social realism about Londoners whose messy lives converge in the city s storied neighborhood of Soho. Millionaire developer Agatha Howard is dead-set on blank-slating a ramshackle building to transform it into luxury condominiums, but first, she must evict the longtime tenants, including the workers and patrons of the property s secret brothel, as well as the barflies at its popular ground floor pub.

A London Teeming With Bodies, Buildings, Desire and Greed

A London Teeming With Bodies, Buildings, Desire and Greed In “Hot Stew,” Fiona Mozley’s interest is in agency specifically, how it cuts across class, a vibrant reboot of that ancient British hang-up, and its modern iteration, “authenticity.”Credit.Aleksandra Maciejewska Buy Book ▾ By Emma Brockes HOT STEW By Fiona Mozley Two pages into “Hot Stew,” the second novel by Fiona Mozley, following “Elmet,” which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, we follow the progress of a snail from a restaurant kitchen where it was shortly to be boiled, through an open door, to an alley and beyond. It’s an image, unfolding at a literal snail’s pace, that seems designed to troll the modern reader, her concentration dulled by scrolling. Eventually, the creature reaches a wall, where “flexing and releasing,” up it goes and the reader with it. As an introduction to the novel, I found it oddly, aggressively thrilling.

In Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley Takes Aim at Gentrifying Cities

In Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley Takes Aim at Gentrifying Cities Mozley discusses why the medieval period inspires her, how Charles Dickens influenced this book, and what she hopes and fears for modern cities riven by income inequality. Hot Stew, describing a character s pleasant feeling of his own largesse as he doles out a generous tip. Anyone living in a capitalist system like the one Mozley lambasts in this novel knows one thing to be true about wealth: it all too rarely flows downward. Four years after the publication of her Booker Prize-nominated debut, Elmet, Mozely returns with her sophomore effort in

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