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Apr 24, 2017jr3083 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Reading the debut book of a writer whose second book you really liked is a bit of a gamble. What if s/he only found firm footing with the second book? What if the first was a dud?
I needn’t have worried. There are similarities between Anthony Marra’s second book The Tsar of Love and Techno in that both books have sections set in Chechnya (in fact, the whole of Constellation is set there) and they both have oblique titles, but this book focusses more on a small group of people and is ‘straighter’...
I know very little Chechnyan history, but I feel that I know more having read this book- and what an easy, seductive way to learn it.
All of this written with wisdom and compassion and with landscapes and people described so clearly that you can see it. He's good; very good.
For my complete review, see
https://residentjudge.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/a-constellation-of-vital-phenomena-by-anthony-marra/
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena