In Lori Ostlund's debut collection people seeking escape from
situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just
as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind.
In prose highlighted by both satire and poignant observation,
Ostlund offers characters that represent a different sort of
everyman--men and women who poke fun at ideological rigidity while
holding fast to good grammar and manners, people seeking
connections in a world that seems increasingly foreign. In "Upon
Completion of Baldness" a young woman shaves her head for a part in
a movie in Hong Kong that will help her escape life with her lover
in Albuquerque. The precocious narrator of "All Boy" finds comfort
when he is locked in a closet by a babysitter. In "Dr. Deneau's
Punishment" a math teacher leaving New York for Minnesota as a
means of punishing himself engages in an unsettling method of
discipline. A lesbian couple whose relationship is disintegrating
flees to the Moroccan desert in "The Children beneath the Seat."
And in "Idyllic Little Bali" a group of Americans gathers around a
pool in Java to discuss their brushes with fame and ends up
witnessing a man's fatal flight from his wife.
In the eleven stories in "The Bigness of the World" we see that
wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far
away.
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