Andrew-Woodrow Butcher of The Winnipeg Review said all the nice things about Hamburger, including this about “Three Deaths of James Arthur Doole”, the last and longest story in the book, in which a Canadian family family travels to Europe to visit an ancestor’s war grave:
“Perry layers the ordinary with subtle complexities that push us into new territory… This is not a story of unreliable voices, or ambiguity, or shocking information that overturns previous understanding. This is a story about how reality is complicated and polyvalent. ‘Three Deaths of James Arthur Doole’ is simultaneously earnest and ironic, simple and intricate.”
And in Quill & Quire, Alex Good said, “Perry’s shorter pieces are the most successful: narrow slices of contemporary life dealing with characters who seem to have just missed epiphanic moments, as though being late for a bus.”
Happy to receive the coverage! Read the full reviews here and here.
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