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• W4386544015 abstract "Reviewed by: Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill Matthew Hooton Michelle Cahill. Daisy & Woolf. Sydney: Hachette, 2022. 296 pp. $32.99. ISBN-13 9780733645211 A novel about the vulnerabilities of people of color crossing borders Daisy & Woolf is a novel that will inevitably elicit comparisons to Michael Cunningham's The Hours for its fictional engagement with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. But Cahill's novel very much stands on its own and is worthy of admiration for its handling of complex histories, its deeply woven intertextualities, and its presentation of Daisy, Woolf's minor character, as fully fleshed and realized. This is an elaborate narrative made accessible through beautiful prose. The story tracks a contemporary writer, Mina, as she wrestles with (in a decidedly postmodern layering) creating a story about one of Woolf's fictional sidenotes. And so we follow Mina as she travels the world, writing, researching, and seeking companionship, just as Mina's Daisy (that dark, adorably pretty character from Woolf's classic) travels from India with her daughter to England, leaving behind her husband and son, set on beginning a new life with the man she loves (Cahill 11). We are guided through the novel by the first-person narrations of both Mina and Daisy, with the latter writing journal entries, but we are also given letters, some written by and to Woolf's characters and one even presented as if written by Woolf herself. The impact of this approach cannot be overstated; it is fundamental to how one reads and understands the novel's structure. Mina speaks of Daisy as if she is real, and the two characters' stories begin to blur, even as we see Mina working on her own fiction and researching Woolf. Writing becomes an act of translation, Mina tells us. Fictional lives are swapped for the real and threaten to collapse under the scaffolding of our inventions (216). This is a bold and brave move for any novelist, and Cahill shows a deft touch when shifting between timelines and points of view. And the author does so while calling into question the very expectations the publishing industry so often places on so-called immigrant writers (stories of assimilation or of overcoming great obstacles to arrive here, please and thank you). So there it is, says Mina, like a bird's nest: strands of biography and history entering a novel (214). Mina is referencing her own novel; but of course there is another blurring in this regard too, and we read the comment as referring to Cahill's creation. It is a fascinating structure. Ursula K. Le Guin famously wrote that a novel need not follow templates, but might be better considered as a sack or bag, taking the shape of what is placed inside. The novel as bird's nest is equally challenging and inspiring and speaks to the layered narratives interlaced with letters that act as fictional artifacts, all of it seemingly found, all of it gathered for a specific purpose (Woolf herself wrote in her diary that fiction is like a spider's web [293]). These letters draw our contemporary protagonist into the past, both the past that is a reimagining of Woolf's fiction and the historical past (which is problematized by Mina throughout in a satisfying ongoing critique). This novel considers the vulnerabilities of people of color crossing borders; it is about class as well as race, about sexuality and perspective. Each theme and idea is another strand for the nest, and each is carefully considered, explored, and fit for purpose. Just when we worry that a thread is loose, perhaps does not fit, Cahill complicates the issue through character. Mina is privileged in her travels and connections, [End Page 171] complaining of gatekeepers and a publishing industry asking for comfortable, recognizable narratives. And we wonder if she is exaggerating her situation. At the same time, we learn of her past, of how racism has impacted her and her family. We witness a man sexually assaulting her. And then we wonder if she has not, in fact, downplayed her lack of privilege. In short, Cahill writes intricate and entangled characters that experience life in resoundingly human ways. And this..." @default.
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• W4386544015 title "Daisy & Woolf by Michelle Cahill (review)" @default.
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