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Salvation
Lucia Nevai
Publisher: Tin House Books
Pub. Date: May 28, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0979419836
240pp
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Salvation is comparable to reading
poetry. Lucia Nevia
is an award winning writer of short stories and rightfully so. Salvation
is the story of Crane Cavanaugh, a girl born in the fifties in Iowa. She is disfigured after her prostitute mother
tried to abort her. She lives in a shack
with her mother, preacher and healer father, an aunt who quotes scripture, and
her half brother and sister. Left to
their own devices by neglect from their parents, the children explore and
suffer on their own. Eventually, they
are seized by the state and separated.
Crane is eventually adopted by a childless couple whose mother tries to
transform Crane’s identity. This change
is what Salvation is about. Crane wants to please her new mother but is
drawn to her own identity and needs.
Crane describes her looks as Benjamin Franklin with bluntness and irony. This is how the pain and triumphs of all the
wonderful characters are written. Salvation was described by Alice Seabold as a “knockout” and furthering her description, I
would say I was laid out cold from this poignant novel.
Book Room Grade
A-
Review Posted: September 3, 2008
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