"What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark, Renata Adl
er's follow-up to her prizewinning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions. It i
s also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-flee
ting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a
married lover, and moments (conversations, things unsaid, misunderstandings) of
that fraught relationship reverberate throughout the novel, following Kate from
her house in rural Connecticut and her New York City brownstone apartment, to a
small island off the coast of Washington, and to an utterly dark road in a remo
te corner of Ireland.
Told in Adler's celebrated fragmented style, and constr
ucted from the bare-bones language of everyday life, Pitch Dark transcends its p
arts to come to the kind of wisdom achievable only after a relentless quest.
