Ebook: Helen Keller Really Lived : A Novel

What does it mean to really live? Or not? a Set in eastern, upstate New York, " Helen Keller Really Lived" features a fortyish former barfly and grifter who must make a living in the wake of her wealthy husbandOCOs death, and who finds work in a clinic helping women seeking reproductive assistance. The other main character is the grifterOCOs dead ex-husband, a Ukrainian hooker-to-healer success story, who prior to his demise was a gynecologist and after, an amateur folklorist, or ghostlorist, who collected and provided scholarly commentary on the stories of his fellow OC revenants.OCO a Their intertwined stories explore the mistakes, miscarriages, inadequacies, and defeats that may have led to their divorce, including his failure (according to her) to OC fully live.OCO a As it investigates the theme of what it means to OC really liveOCO or not, Elisabeth SheffieldOCOs brilliant new novel is also an exploration of virtual reality in the sense of the experience provided by literature. It is a novel awash in a multitude of voices, from the obscenity-laced, Nabokovian soliloquys of the dead Ukrainian doctor, to the trade-school / midcentury-romance-novel-constrained style of his dead mother-in-law. "