![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then there is a switch thrown in the mind, and the physiognomy suddenly becomes familiar again, recognized, seen now subjectively as a whole, rather than the sum of its parts. “There are a few dozen seconds, maybe a couple of minutes, Cleo thinks, when one meets someone one hasn’t seen for a long time, when they appear as strangers, and their faces must be read objectively. Hofmann’s writing is gorgeous, her characters are so real, so well-developed, the story so engaging that I would rush back from the gallery each day just to see what they were up to. I loved this book about a family that falls apart and the siblings who find each other, whole or in fragments, many years later. stickers from which I stuck onto the back of the book so the two are forever connected now. I read Karen Hofmann’s What is Going to Happen Next while in Ottawa,where, when I wasn’t reading or eating I was at the National Gallery…. ![]()
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