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Hope Floats
Hope Floats
Wet Hot American Bummer: Chris Adrian's post-flood Magic MountainWater may be griefs most figurative and convincing form, destructive in onslaught and lingering in aftereffect. Recent events have made mud of God's covenant-the one about the rainbow and never again destroying the earth with flooding-and it's hard to read a book like Chris Adrian's new novel The Children's Hospital (McSweeney's, 615 pp., $24), with its dead under seven miles of water, and not think...See the full content of this document
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