Free Food for Millionaires Reviewed in Narrative Magazine
Free Food for Millionaires was Reviewed by Lacy Crawford in Narrative Magazine in the First and Second Looks section (requires registration). Here’s an excerpt:
“Not one character is introduced in this wide-ranging novel who doesn’t come alive and fill the stage, for a page or entire chapters; the effect is of a choir gradually assembling, so that by the end of this big, lush novel, the reader feels a community gathered—one that provides the most hopeful alternative to the harsh old ways and the even harsher new. This novel will make readers, particularly young urbanites, misty with recognition. “
Interview at “Living Read Girl”
“Living Read Girl” :
“Question: Free Food for Millionaires is structured like a 19th Century novel. What is it about that style of writing that appeals to you?”
“Answer: …By comparison, I take comfort in the rules of a sonnet—the number of lines, the kinds of rhyme, the type of sonnets (Petrachan, Spenserian…) and the infinite variety of poems that can be written within the narrow rules of a form. I have studied the techniques of traditional story telling in the hopes of making the story almost easy to read. I worry obsessively about technique and tools and demand a great deal from each placement and change of word or idea, but I think when a reader picks up my book, she should never have to think about any of this.”
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