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Title: Crackling "Electricities"
Review: A handful of times in your life you pick up a book that you know almost immediately is destined to be in that small cluster of books you consider personal touchstones. This is one. It's so fearless, so exhilaratingly creative, so completely inhabited, and captures the feel of life so well it's almost a living, breathing thing in and of itself. If aliens landed on earth and asked me for a book that portrayed midwestern life in a small town, my first impulse would probably be to give them Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. However, if they wanted to know what that life felt like in all its quietest, loneliest and most intense moments, I'd give them this one. Monson is a genius. This book is a flat-out masterpiece.
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