6/22/2023 0 Comments The flamethrowers kushner![]() The idea that character is a bundle of timeless and essential human traits is a sort of ideology. “Even class for me is important, and ethnicity, because all these things pressure character. “The way I would describe it is looking at the forces of history, the social, the political milieu,” she says, sitting at the dining room table, engaged, intelligent, choosing her ideas with care. Perhaps most prominent is the large framed map of Cuba, the setting for Kushner’s first book, “Telex from Cuba,” a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. ![]() And yet, even on a quiet afternoon in early spring, one finds traces, echoes of the broader world. There are books on shelves and stacks of children’s games in one corner, a music stand holds a beginner’s songbook for guitar. ![]() Rachel Kushner’s house in Angelino Heights feels about a million miles - and a million years - from the tumult embodied in her novels. ![]()
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