" --School Library Journal
Carr's deeply charged poetic novel
though she’s been in love with him since childhood
recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up
and delusions of a middle class that has long ceased to exist in North America—garrulous men in wool suits extolling the virtues of their wares to taciturn shopkeepers with an eye on the door
The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease True Crime " --School Library JournalExploring sanity and insanity, truth and untruth, The Rise and Fall of Parkinsons Disease is Svetislav Basaras unblinking and unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche. Told as an eclectic collection of appropriated testimonies, treatises, missives, and police files, The Rise and Fall of Parkinsons Disease follows the progression of the contagions patient zero, a Soviet citizen (sometimes) named Demyan Lavrentyevich Parkinson, as he ascends