As with so much of her fiction, Rachel Kushner’s new essay collection is concerned with liminal spaces and breakthroughs, outsiders who carve their own paths to embrace worlds that are exciting, sometimes terrifying, but always fascinating to encounter.
Girl on a Motorcycle, the opening story of The Hard Crowd, sets the tone as the author takes the reader on a hair-raising trip down the Baja Peninsula in Mexico where Kushner participates in the notorious Cabo 1000 motorcycle race: “At four thirty a.m. we were lined up in the dark parking lot of the Motel 6, all twenty-nine of us revving our engines like a swarm of angry bees.” It is a thrilling and intimate perspective from the life of a risk taker, akin to eavesdropping on the daring exploits of someone’s cool older sister.
The Link LonkApril 08, 2021 at 12:00PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-hard-crowd-everything-is-turning-to-gold-1.4514864
The Hard Crowd: Everything is turning to gold - The Irish Times
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