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Overview

"Enter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and complacently married to Adam. "Now you know," she says. "Our names really didn't bother me that much until the mail started arriving addressed to 'Adam and Eve Broussard'," He's just been diagnosed with a grave illness and gone back to the palatial family home where his parents reside. It's all just fine with Eve - or so she tells herself at the beginning." But standing left of center in this still-prosperous but mortally wounded family does not get easier as the weeks wear on. As she negotiates her way around the anger of Adam's despised twin brother Saunders, maintains her friendship with his beautiful and volatile wife Petal, and protects what's left of the innocence of her niece Collie, Eve finds more than the Louisiana heat oppressive.

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The novel's see-sawing between laughter and despair captures the hysteria of the moment and the schizophrenia of the times, but also finds an under­current of optimism, buried deep but rising strong, that carries Eve and the reader forward…Mary Robison's work has always felt like a glorious amenity, but One D.O.A., One on the Way is a powerful necessity.
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With a laconic voice and a despairing sense of humor, film location scout Eve Broussard narrates award-winning Robison's (Why Did I Ever) grim yet witty novella about the dissolution of a family and a city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Eve and unstable-but-armed Petal are married to 42-year-old twins, Adam and Saunders, who-not unlike the two black swans forever circling the statue commemorating their sister's suicide-spin their nearly identical lives aimlessly: drinking, fretting over hepatitis C and hording cocaine in their parents' stately New Orleans mansion. This family's Big Easy is a world where lush excess and harsh deprivation work side-by-side to create a malaise sinister in its paralyzing appeal. Told in terse, numbered passages, Robison's narrative is jumpy but effective, interspersed with and informed by startling statistics ("More than 50 former NOPD officers are in prison, 2 on death row"). Distilled episodes of mistaken identity, marriage trouble and potential infidelity build to a crucial decision for Eve, who may be damned if she does, damned if she doesn't. (Mar.)

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Postmodern, post-Katrina picaresque from Robison (Tell Me, 2002, etc.). Eve works as a location scout, desperately trying to drum up film-industry work in a New Orleans still physically and economically ravaged by the hurricane. Deeply affected by the abject squalor and the scale of ruin, she sees these cruel absurdities from a position of privilege, having married into money. Her third husband, Adam, suffers from hepatitis C and has dysfunctional relatives, including his alcoholic twin, Saunders, his overbearing parents and a sister-in-law who pulls a gun on Saunders and is soon institutionalized. The clan's dark scandal concerns a daughter drowned in the family pond, now home to a spooky statue and two black swans. Like the post-Katrina landscape, the story is littered with found objects: interspersed news clippings on various subjects, including gun holsters; health-department, law-enforcement and FEMA statistics; personal and funny lists of missing items; Eve's notes to herself ("I'm through reading lengthy bits of scripture into the answering machines of my enemies"). Hindered by guilt and latent anger, Eve also boasts an inability to keep her mouth shut that comes close to scuttling her attempts to sell the city as a location to a detestable film producer. As she struggles with Adam's illness and her affair with his twin, she diverts herself with alcohol and pot, drives around New Orleans and environs dispensing witticisms to her film-biz protege Lucien. Robison's spare, hilarious dialogue and collection of fragmented images, moments and excerpts call on readers to fill in blanks and to organize what looks at first glance like chaos glimpsed from a moving car. The ending is a bit ofa cop-out, but a vivid, witty ride precedes it.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781582435619
  • Publisher: Counterpoint
  • Publication date: 2/16/2010
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 1,187,474
  • Product dimensions: 5.26 (w) x 7.50 (h) x 0.51 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary Robison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She is the author of three previous novels, Oh! (1981), Subtraction (1991), and Why Did I Ever (2001), and of four story collections, Days (1979), An Amateur's Guide to the Night (1983), Believe Them (1988), and Tell Me (2002). Robison has written for Hollywood and has been a contributor to the New Yorker since 1977.

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