![]() Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude Her insight comes from understanding her characters yet not dissecting them with a mental scalpel, and portraying life with its most complex and wondrous dynamics in time and space rather than inventing a static canvas. So rare does one see a wise writer like Lori Ostlund. " After the Parade is about leave-taking and homecoming, two instrumental actions that shape the life of every one of us. Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man ![]() Aaron Englund is one of the most lovable, quietly heroic protagonists in recent memory, and Ostlund is a gem of a writer." ![]() " After the Parade is remarkable both for the clarity and precision of Lori Ostlund's writing and her seemingly clairvoyant empathy for the misfits of the world: the different, the foreign, the gay, the bullied, the lonely. Be alive to the possibility of wonder."-Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Empire Falls "Lori Ostlund's wonderful novel After the Parade should come with a set of instructions: Be perfectly still. "A beautiful, elegant, honest, and compassionate book about trauma-and the difficult process through which we come to make sense of our lives."-Hanya Yanighara, bestselling author of A Little Life ![]() The prose sparkles, and the author is so smart andso kind to her characters: a rare combination and so refreshing to read."-Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and The Kings and Queens of Roam "As full-bodied and full-blooded a novelas I've read in a long time. ![]()
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