Fiction Review: Gabrielle Stecher Woodward Reads Jim Naremore’s Novel American Still Life

A pair of Nike high-tops, a stuffed rabbit, a vinyl suitcase, a laminated graduation photo framed with dried marigolds: these common yet intimate relics are the defining features of descansos. These roadside memorials created on the occasion of someone’s tragic and untimely death are the subject of photojournalist Skade Felsdottir’s big break. As “one of…

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