Gestures Madness it lays bare the joists

it lays bare the joists and studs that hold up the house of fiction

The Stinging Fly

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”  —Jeff VanderMeer

A pensioner seeks justice for his dead wife

Gestures Madness it lays bare the joistsA forty year old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is "a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.'" A forty year old man, burying himself in work and avoiding