Description:
Marcia Butler's debut novel, Pickle's Progress, is a fierce, mordant New York story about the twisted path to love. Over the course of five weeks, identical twin brothers, one wife, a dog, and a bereaved young woman collide against each other to hilarious and sometimes horrifying effect. Everything is questioned and tested as they jockey for position and try to maintain the status quo. Love is the poison, the antidote, the devil and, ultimately, the hero.
Brief description:
Marcia Butler, a former professional oboist and interior designer, is a documentary film maker and author of the memoir The Skin above My Knee and debut novel, Pickle's Progress. With her second novel, Oslo, Maine, she draws on indelible memories of performing for fifteen years at a chamber music festival in central Maine. While there, she came to love the diverse topography, the earnest and quirky people, and especially the majestic and endlessly fascinating moose who roam, at their perpetual peril, among the humans.
Review Quotes:
"Butler's debut...starts with a crash then slows as the characters' personalities develop. In this study of how childhood experiences shape perception, and how deception keeps people caged, Butler shows that nothing need be set in stone."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"