{"id":332,"date":"2014-02-10T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2014-02-10T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:20:21","slug":"in-the-hands-of-a-masterful-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"In the Hands of a Masterful Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Review of &#8220;Where is She Now&#8221; by Ina Chadwick,<br \/>\nConnecticut Muse Winter 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt you\u2019re in a<br \/>\nmasterful writer\u2019s hands when<br \/>\nthe first page of a book sets a<br \/>\nscene so visceral, so clearly<br \/>\nevoked that you know you\u2019re going on a bleak<br \/>\njourney whether you want to or not.<br \/>\nIn Frances Gilbert\u2019s grim, deftly evoked tale,<br \/>\nWhere Is She Now, a newborn\u2019s mysterious death<br \/>\npropels the plot forward as the young mother,<br \/>\nRosemary, who remembered the elation of seeing<br \/>\nher newborn with \u201cwisps of black hair over tiny<br \/>\nperfect ears and long fingers over the blanket,\u201d<br \/>\ndisassembles in front of our eyes, leading us into a<br \/>\ndense fog as can only be found in a small British<br \/>\nworking class town where the story is set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of &#8220;Where is She Now&#8221; by Ina Chadwick, Connecticut Muse Winter 2009 &#8220;There is no doubt you\u2019re in a masterful writer\u2019s hands when the first page of a book sets a scene so visceral, so clearly evoked that you know you\u2019re going on a bleak journey whether you want to or not. In Frances &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/?p=332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the Hands of a Masterful Writer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesgilbert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}