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Clell created Cuckoo from her firsthand experience with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. [http://www.multiples.net/] The book is told in a series of vignettes which began life as individual issues of a comic called Cuckoo. Through the text and Clell's sketchy, stark black-and-white drawings, Clell explains what DID is and how one develops it, how she discovered she had it, how it has affected her life, and the steps she has taken to make it go away. My life has always been very sheltered and comfortable, so I was horrified to read about what happened to Clell when she was so young -- some of the atrocities are so unspeakable that she does not even depict them in the book, except obliquely. The book made me understand DID better, but also reemphasized for me that we should never assume we know what our fellow human beings have experienced in their lives.
I'm still in the process of reading this, but its like savoring a great dessert...I just want to enjoy the way she writes...
Longwinded and preoccupied with history. In other short stories and books Proulx proved herself a master at casting a compelling story before a meaningful historical backdrop. To me, when history takes precedence over story the writing suffers. That's what happens here. Proulx doesn't seem to care about her characters so much as the ambitious task she has set before her, which is to follow the peripatetic path of a simple green organetto for a hundred years. Some of her plot twists are interesting. Some of her intersections with history are cool. Sometimes she's showing off. Everything is skullfully written, though, and, of course, we see the button accordion to the end of its life and a good deal of America along the way. Worth a read if you're in for a long, meandering story with hints of magic realism. Otherwise, read Close Range: wyo stories by Proulx and you'll see a powerful writer at work.