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January 18, 2011

$Rohin Guha /// Relief Work Guha’s sense of atmosphere is savage; the New York of these stories droops and wavers and stinks in a clammy, vibrational heat. Guha’s characters are like glass, showing hairline fractures, shattering at acute pressures. Guha’s vignettes resemble snowglobes, polished and fantastically static on the shelf and meanwhile aswirl with interior tempest. Relief Work is what all work by young writers should be, and what established novelists forget they once were: not merely confessional, or personal, but desperate.$

Rohin Guha /// Relief Work

Guha’s sense of atmosphere is savage; the New York of these stories droops and wavers and stinks in a clammy, vibrational heat. Guha’s characters are like glass, showing hairline fractures, shattering at acute pressures. Guha’s vignettes resemble snowglobes, polished and fantastically static on the shelf and meanwhile aswirl with interior tempest. Relief Work is what all work by young writers should be, and what established novelists forget they once were: not merely confessional, or personal, but desperate.

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