An ingenious pocket universe.
In the exquisite, wistful, slyly profound Present Tense Machine , Gunnhild yehaug delivers another dazzling renovation of what fiction can do, a testament to the fact that language shapes the world..
They worry about their families, their jobs, the climate--and whether this reality is all there is.
Both are married
Anna had two more children after Laura disappeared, and Laura is expecting a child of her own.
Both are writers and amateur pianists.
Both Anna and Laura continue to exist, but they are invisible to each other and forgotten in each other\'s worlds.
In each of the women\'s lives, however, something is not quite right.
Twenty years or so later, life has gone on as if nothing happened.
Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe opens up, and Laura disappears. --Catherine Lacey On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. --Caitlin Horrocks, The New York Times Book Review Gunnhild yehaug is a magician of the highest rank.
An ingenious pocket universe
