The Enigma Variations
by Alex Ranieri
To be lean’d, and to lean on.
The character at the center of Alex Ranieri’s The Enigma Variations is self-certain of an innate and under-appreciated eminence, but becomes, by failing notice her misprisions, a victim of this very self-certainty. An acute psychology commands the narrator’s recollection of a past now beyond her powers to amend. Alex Ranieri’s own powers as a novelist render affecting the bitterness of loss, both in art and love, as the book itself voices the dangers of forsaking our romantic pasts, which inevitably, when we are called upon to recall a former life, brings to light a present ruin.
Available 12/15/19