![]() ![]() A gift, nah?” Xavier, the first character we meet, has a gift for food he can cook meals that nourish an individual’s particular needs and has been chosen as Popisho’s “macaenus.” That job means “he had a scant twenty years to cook a meal for every single adult man and woman on Popisho. “Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something-something, boy, a little something extra. The various manifestations of magic take a while to emerge, but Ross states the basic premise early, in characteristically lilting language. ![]() But in “ Popisho,” about a fictional archipelago with echoes to the Caribbean, she emulates the work of Gabriel García Márquez and his Latin American peers by delineating a world in which magic is a matter-of-fact presence in people’s lives. While “ All the Blood Is Red” and “ Orange Laughter” were by no means straightforwardly realistic fiction, Ross grounded them in specific real-world landscapes. Leone Ross’s third novel is so overstuffed with characters and plot that readers will either close it in frustration or embrace it for the author’s verbal gusto and brilliant, kaleidoscopic scene-setting. Read the full review at The Washington Post. ![]() ![]() Wendy Smith (author of Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940) reviews Popisho, a new novel by Leone Ross. ![]()
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