5/18/2023 0 Comments The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson![]() ![]() The second part of The Open Curtainfeatures a young woman named Lyndi who's readjusting to normal life after the brutal murder of her parents. A quiet Mormon high school kid living alone with his difficult mother who becomes obsessed with a murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young involving an archaic Mormon ritual. ![]() The Open Curtain is a novel with three distinct parts featuring different characters as the protagonist but that tell the same overarching story. Pretty great, considering it's completely different from his other work and therefore impossible to compare. Great authors often create great expectations for their work, so how did this one hold up? Evenson is perhaps best known for his short story collection Altmann's Tongue and the novel The Open Curtainthat chronicle his tormented relationship to Mormonism, a religion he grew up in and eventually separated from. ![]() The witty criticism of organized religion and the seamless integration of language-based subtleties in his iconic detective novel Last Days in particular revealed a world of possibilities I was not aware the genre was capable of. ![]() I've made no secret of my admiration for the work of cult author Brian Evenson since discovering his work late in 2016. ![]()
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