![]() ![]() Highly energetic and supremely self-knowing, not a little boastful and perpetually clever, Lillian slices the world with bright blades of humor. While the novel's structure can at times feel claustrophobic - this one-to-one correspondence between the triggering present and the recalled past - Lillian's voice is anything but. ![]() She'll fall into step with her own memories - a highlight reel, if you will, of her life as she prefers to remember it - ironic, crystalline and nimble. She'll encounter strangers and friends, young people and less young, charming them all along the way. Her peregrinations will take her more than 10 miles from her apartment in Murray Hill to The Back Porch bar to Grimaldi restaurant to Madison Square Park all the way to Macy's. She sets out, on this night, with a plan. In time, the real Margaret Fishback of the archival trove had become, in Rooney's imagination, Lillian Boxfish, an elderly woman alone in New York City on the final day of 1984. ![]()
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