From the Archives: “Clarity can be reached via winding paths, and the reading experience may be all the richer for the wandering”: Christina Ward-Niven wraps up her essay on defamiliarization with a discussion of Gina Berriault’s surprising language.
“Like the eye of a passing storm, these interludes bring a necessary interruption, a pause that allows us (not to mention the characters themselves) to have the time needed to process the stories’ crises before facing their conclusions.” In the first half of this craft essay, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple explores the “penultimate space”—between crisis and resolution—in Gina Berriault’s “The Stone Boy.”
