6/23/2023 0 Comments Sing you home book review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pochoda sifts through myriad literary tropes, including allusions to Macbeth, mythology, even a bit of a Greek chorus, while not losing sight that “Sing Her Down” is a crime novel. As always, Picoult deals with big issues. O元5283011M ISBN 10 1737474301 ISBN 13 9781737474302 Community Reviews (0) Feedback No community reviews have been submitted for this work. Sing You Home is Jodi Picoult’s 18th novel. ![]() Sing You Home (Nashville Star Series) The Physical Object Format paperback. “Sing Her Down,” Pochoda’s tour de force, looks at the rage women may carry, why a person would abandon a comfortable, middle-class living for crime and violence. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small. A bleak setting to be sure, but brilliantly explored as Pochoda burrows deep into her characters’ psyche. She peoples this landscape with women on the margins who are plunged into one chaotic situation after another. Ivy Pochoda’s decidedly noir novels excavate a part of Los Angeles most people would prefer to ignore - the homeless camps, the run-down motels, the bits of sidewalks and alleys where someone has carved a home of sorts. Five writers can write about the same city and readers will be treated to five different versions of that area. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 288 pages, $28Įach author who makes the setting as much a character as the people who inhabit the story brings a different set of sensibilities, atmosphere and focus to their novels. ![]()
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