Tag: Self-Portrait with Boy
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“Portrait of Desperation”: Paige M. Ferro on Rachel Lyon’s Novel Self-Portrait with Boy
David Foster Wallace once said, “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Art in all its forms serves to disrupt. Yet, there stands a difference between the grotesque and the garish, the disturbing and the obscene, art and invasion. This is the premise to Rachel Lyon’s debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy. The main…