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I Go To Some Hollow (2009)

by Amina Cain(Favorite Author)

4.6 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1934254096 (ISBN13: 9781934254097)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Les Figues Press

review 1: Oh my god.I don't normally go ape shit about short story collections, nor do I normally read them straight through beginning to end, nor do I usually spend time on Goodreads harping about the exceptions to my reading habits regarding short story collections. But Amina Cain is some kind of minimalism wizard. Here are some things I USUALLY DESPISE about modern short stories:1) about nothing2) not much happens3) about ordinary people4) uninteresting5) self-involved6) etc.For nearly all the same reasons, I LOVE AMINA CAIN and THIS BOOK. She breaks all the rules. She is a master. Her writing is clean and beautiful. It is simple. It isn't working really hard to be/sound brilliant, it IS brilliant. It doesn't rely on any stupid prose tricks to hypnotize hapless readers. In fact, ... morethe hungry escapist who comes to fiction to be charmed like some schoolgirl will as likely be turned off by Cain's simple unnerving style as enthralled. What does Richard Pryor say about Comedy? 'If nobodys walking out, you're probably not that fucking funny?' Amina Cain does what she does, and I, for one, am mightily impressed. NO other contemporary short story writer has won me over so completely.
review 2: something happened to my body while reading this book... something like seeing or remembering how to really see through reading. where reading/seeing is the same as feeling vibrationally, cellulary, tactilely. i didn't understand what was happening until i was at the park with a one-year-old and as i was pushing her on the swing, a man gestured to her as she was laughing and kicking her arms and legs. he said: "it must beautiful, no?" "what?" i said. "weightlessness," he said. and suddenly i was terrified for her, the baby. i was so scared i didn't even answer the man who smiling walked away towards his own children. and it was there that i understood what had happened to me as i read amina cain's narratives while on the subway to and from work each morning. many are written, especially those in the first person, from a place of weightlessness, where the characters might feel: "the thin outlines [of themselves:] approach and subside." they are written from an unhinged place... from and by a person inside of a person. floating and watching from two places at once. less

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