Journal Falls A Bit Short of Satisfying: Review of Your Impossible Voice, Fall 2018

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Petur HKFollow

Abstract

Overall Your Impossible Voice is far from bad, but at the same time, not much comes to mind when I try to think of the pieces in this issue. There is a general over-arching theme of feeling out of place, of trying to find a, as Joanna Ruocco puts it in her excerpt from The Runner, “better solution to the problem of existence.” And this theme is strong throughout, for better and for worse. The majority of narrators and characters feel far away, from each other as well as from the reader, telling their stories at a distance. This emphasizes the notion of feeling out of place and away from home, which is admirable, but at the same it also means that the fiction is for the most part drawn out and overly contemplative.

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Recommended Citation

HK, Petur (2020) "Journal Falls A Bit Short of Satisfying: Review of Your Impossible Voice, Fall 2018," The Review Review: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.33972/trr.57
Available at: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/trr/vol1/iss1/2