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The Labyrinth

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Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it -to find a way out of her quandary -Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.… (mer)

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This book a gift from my daughter and what a difference a good-sized font makes. I read it in two sittings. To be more specific, I consumed it, and now that I’ve just finished, I’m not sure what to say about it. There’s something entirely familiar, almost common place about the northern rivers setting and the beautifully drawn characters of which the main character, the author, is so recognisable as to feel like someone I know quite well or at least have met.
It’s not that much happens in the book or that there are revelations. The big actions happen outside the book. Perhaps that’s why it’s subtitled ‘A Pastoral’.
It brings to mind Eliot’s line,

and so I rejoice upon having to construct something upon which to rejoice.

Which is perhaps another way of stating the epigraph

The care for many ills, noted Jung, is to build something.

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simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |

“Good to do this” but I'm unsure if he means good to do this or good for you to do this.”

And I think, as the son of Eastern Europeans who were not native speakers of English, it seemed obvious. Who is this person who is puzzled?

The person is Erica Marsden, in Amanda Lohrey’s The Labyrinth.

How would you live your life as the parent of your son after he is imprisoned for committing a heinous crime? The labyrinth is a metaphor for living that life, and for other’s lives - for a way into its depths and back out.

I enjoyed its language, its uncertainties, it’s ambiguities, and it’s immensely satisfying closing sentence that pointed to an opening. (

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Tutaref | Aug 11, 2022 |

One of the best, most absorbing books I've read - seemingly quiet story with multiple prongs. I loved it. (

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tandah | May 8, 2022 |

https://shawjonathan.com/2022/03/08/the-book-group-in-amanda-lohreys-labyrinth/

shawjonathan | Mar 7, 2022 |

Wonderful evocative writing, painting a vivid picture of a woman going through difficult times - looking back, living the present, but not looking forward to far.
I was a little puzzled by the plot - events are described with great feeling, some flashbacks, but the plot doesn't go anywhere. But in the context, it doesn't matter. The book describes a time in her life, not a resolution.
Terrific stuff. (

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Kairos.. A word from my small portion of undergraduate Greek, a word I had stored away: meaning not time, but timeliness. By this the Greeks meant the right or opportune moment for doing, a moment that can’t be scheduled, as it is poised between beginnings and endings. It does not submit to chronos, which is mere arithmetic: a minute, an hour, a day, a decade, the work of timekeepers. Kairos exists as a potential, a mode of improvisation, of responding to a sudden opening in the fabric of time. No theory can enable or plan for it. Abandon the fixed time, wait for the moment to arrive, and then act. At nineteen I had been struck by this, had decided that this was how I would live my life. It seemed then to be purely a matter of resolve; instead, it requires inhuman patience. And faith. (p.225)

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Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it -to find a way out of her quandary -Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.

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