You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe
by Rebecca Brown
New Book of the Week , March 28, 2022
You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe
In the season of her life when she is gathering her work, Brown has brought together occasional essays she wrote for the Stranger in the previous decade into a little book of wonderful and moving coherence. In four essays, "Spring," "Summer," "Fall," and "Winter," she moves lightly from myth to memoir to Melville to the Monkees, evoking the traditional annual rhythms of life, death, and rebirth but also those times when you fall out of step with the seasons. It's both deeply personal and deeply communal, and possibly just the kind of stories you need to believe too, as the sap of springtime starts to rise.
In the season of her life when she is gathering her work, Brown has brought together occasional essays she wrote for the Stranger in the previous decade into a little book of wonderful and moving coherence. In four essays, "Spring," "Summer," "Fall," and "Winter," she moves lightly from myth to memoir to Melville to the Monkees, evoking the traditional annual rhythms of life, death, and rebirth but also those times when you fall out of step with the seasons. It's both deeply personal and deeply communal, and possibly just the kind of stories you need to believe too, as the sap of springtime starts to rise.
— Tom
You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe was reviewed in Newsletter #320 on March 28, 2022. For more like this, and other bookish news, sign up for the newsletter .
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