Don’t Cry for Me

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Black’s depressed and gripping fresh novel is an example of how fiction is not just a form of literature but a place. We go there for lessons on how to live, how to change and, most crucial, how to forgive and seek forgiveness … Don’t Cry for Me rides the rickety line between tragedy and melodrama. But despite its sentimental risks — it features an obsessive, cloying focus on family meals…for example, and repeats the assertion that simply telling the story or getting it off one’s chest will make a difference — a theme emerges: Don’t Cry for Me is a novel about novels, a story about stories.

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