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| | Interview with Lisa Goldstein, by Dave Awl |
 | | As she begins unraveling the secret of her history, she encounters Goldstein's usual array of densely strange touches: secret diaries, tigers that speak, golden statues that come to life and funny old mansions with dusty, Byzantine mazes in their basements. |
 | | It's one of Goldstein's most lighthearted and enjoyable books, with the page-turning suspense of a mystery, brightened and made eccentric by Goldstein's Daliesque imagery, deadpan delivery and paragraphs that veer oneirically into poetry. |
 | | He knew something that we don't know, but he never talked about it." In that way, Goldstein says, the surreal family of magicians are modeled on the Marx family, using their magic to confound the expectations of others, as a way of demonstrating truths they cannot otherwise express. |
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