Review "Kevin McIlvoy is a fine writer, who clearly delights in the act of making prose and attending to the mysteries of character." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"Strange and wonderful." -- The New York Times Book Review Read more About the Author Kevin McIlvoy is the author of the novels A Waltz, The Fifth Station, and Little Peg. He teaches at New Mexico State University and Warren Wilson College. Read more
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A beautiful, deceptively simple, love story
Hyssop is a beautiful story told in under 200 pages, so simple it is deceptive, a love story between friends, between lovers, between couples, possibly even between the Catholic Church and her adherents, between everything and nothing. It's a novel of magical realism grounded not in South America but it in the southwestern U.S. and that Kevin McIlvoy manages to question and extol faith and Mexican/American culture in almost one seamless breath through the relationships and stories of Red Greet, the protagonist, is another kind of magic. Such an imaginative and poetic novel--I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys novels with plots that play and meander. It made me laugh out loud with joy!
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