Elizabeth Huergo

A Certain Slant

Fiction

“Mary VanderGoot brings an expansive understanding of human psychology to her characters in A Certain Slant, the second volume of the Maggie Barnes Trilogy, revealing how comfort and conflict both reside in the quotidian, and reminding us that we heal through memory. VanderGoot is, as well, an adept reader of Proust. While memory tethers her characters to their past, the act of remembering at ‘a certain slant’ liberates, gives them entry to a different world of possibilities.”