Kathleen Rooney: Lillian Boxfish takes a walk (2017)
287 pages
English language
Published May 21, 2017
"A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk... paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young"--
This novel is similar in many ways to those written by Mitch Albom... although not quite as spiritual. The story of Lillian Boxfish is interesting and engaging. The manner in which her life is woven into her 'walk' is also quite unique.
One of the best first novels I have read in a very long time. Woman takes walk in New York on New Years eve 1984, cross cutting with the earlier milestones of her life. She meets strangers, has odd encounters. That might speak to you, it might not. This book is so brilliant it wont' matter. Just read it. You will be very happy.
