As we head into the messier months of winter, Laura Zigman’s newest novel, “Small World” offers a warming tonic against ice and gloom. After decades apart, two recently divorced sisters try to forge a new understanding:
As we head into the messier months of winter, Laura Zigman’s newest novel, “Small World” , offers a warming tonic against ice and gloom.
Though set in the present day, Zigman seamlessly weaves in many of Joyce’s childhood memories, and distinguishes these by an elegant shift in tone. In the main story, events and conversations move along at a lively pace. When Joyce recounts something from her family’s past, she does so in a dream-like second-person present tense; the kind of voice you might use when talking to yourself, remembering and reconsidering a memory.
During Eleanor’s lifetime, their mother, Louise, became a fierce advocate for the rights of those with developmental disabilities, a whirlwind of caring for Eleanor and hosting fundraising and activist meetings. After Eleanor’s death, Louise devoted even more energy to the cause, lobbying Congress and meeting with governors and senators.
The book’s title has multiple meanings. It’s the name of a neighborhood website to exchange goods, services and information. Joyce loves how Small World solves little problems; she keeps a journal of poems she makes from its postings, “a form of silent meditation.” The poems are basically messages reformatted with poetic line breaks, yet her choices elevate each query or complaint into something much more, revealing hidden yearnings, joy or self-righteous anger underneath the words.
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