Feature: A Proper Knowledge by Michelle Latiolais (Bellevue Literary Press)

• The Antioch Review praises: “Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she’ll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais’ astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel…The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things…Latiolais triumphs, folding the work’s clinical ruminations into the story’s delicious batter. Powerfully recommended.”
• Here’s the opening paragraph: “Stan engines into Luke’s office, his legs pistoning, fanatical, fueled by something seemingly unstoppable and mechanical, and so frightening—and frightening anew each time, Luke must admit—because each time Luke is alarmed and he knows it registers in his eyes and body until the physician arrives on board and he remembers who he is in this equation called doctor and patient…”
• A Proper Knowledge is further described as the story of a gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, who seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism. It is a beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain—and the heart.
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