My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a witty book about the (fictionalized) life of a real ad-woman, Margaret Fishback. Her life was quite smooth up until she quit her job when she became pregnant and her marriage did not stand the change. Interwoven in the "facts" of her life, is a special New Year's Eve walk. Lillian roams the streets of New York (I know!) alone (again, I know!) and during his walk, she runs in to characters that bring her back in time. Real or imagined, these characters and the city's deterioration cause Lillian to make parallels to her own life and her own decline. Good writing.
Born Beckley, West Virginia, The United States
Website http://www.kathleenrooney.com/
Genre Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She teaches English and Creative Writing at DePaul University and is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! (Fifth Star Press, 2014) and the novel in poems Robinson Alone (Gold Wake Press, 2012). With Eric Plattner, she is the co-editor of René Magritte: Selected Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2016 and Alma Books, 2016). A winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine, her reviews and criticism have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, The Rumpus, The Nation the Poetry Foundation website and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, and her second novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in January of 2017