Ripped from the headlines of the newspaper, Schroder: A Novel by Amity Gaige, is loosely based on the story of a man who fooled everybody, with a false identity that unraveled when he kidnapped his own child. I remember reading about it vaguely, and wondered how someone could lead a double life and get away with it. How could his wife not know?/5(). In Schroder, Amity Gaige explores the rich, murky realm where parental devotion edges into mania, and logic crabwalks into crime. This offbeat, exquisitely written novel showcases a fresh, forceful young voice in American letters. Schroder is a book to be digested slowly, reread and discussed. It's quite a wild ride, but the miles fly by with Amity Gaige at the wheel.” —The Missourian “It's a fine line, sometimes, between disturbing and enrapturing. Amity Gaige's new novel, Schroder, treads that thrilling line .
Amity Gaige is the author of Schroder and The Folded World. Her essays, articles, and stories have appeared in various publications, including the Yale Review, Los Angeles Times, O Magazine, The Literary Review, One Story and in a collection of essays, Feed Me (Random House). She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a McDowell. Amity Gaige (born ) is an American novelist, known for her books O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. Early life. Amity Gaige was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, United. Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on.
Books. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review. Nabokov and Salinger echo through a father's poetic apology for kidnapping his daughter in the middle of a bitter custody battle. A plaintive new novel from Amity Gaige called “Schroder” explores this common tragedy in a most uncomm Attitudes about divorce and laws governing custody have evolved since that time, but the United States is still home to thousands of conflicts every year that put kids under siege from parents hurling accusations and tearing open intimate spaces. Fiction is all about experimental selves, so it’s not hard to see what drew Amity Gaige to the title character of her third novel, “Schroder.”. In his grim urban youth, Erik Schroder picks.
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