Land of Enchantment, by Liza Wieland
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New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O'Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction and inertia of her life. With O'Keeffe's encouragement, Brigid develops a powerful style, incorporating language and wordplay as well as image in her portrayal of Native American life and her place in it. Atlanta, 1995. Nancy Diamond, an aspiring playwright, encounters Brigid's work and begins to understand the hidden truths about her own life as the child born of an affair between her white mother and an African American artist. New York City, 2001. Sasha Hernandez enrolls at Columbia University to study filmmaking. She has only recently discovered that her mother, living in Manhattan, is a celebrated painter and sculptor whose work is installed in the sculpture garden at the World Trade Center. In Liza Wieland's deeply moving novel, these interwoven stories show how art reveals the depth and complexity of human love, in all its betrayals and losses, beauty and redemption
Land of Enchantment, by Liza Wieland- Amazon Sales Rank: #1421765 in Books
- Brand: Wieland, Liza
- Published on: 2015-03-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.29" h x .91" w x 6.37" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 296 pages
Review Wieland tells the intricately woven story of three women whose lives intersect over time in ways only gradually revealed. . . .Wieland engages the reader in the emotional lives of each of these unique women, weaving their stories together during and after 9/11 to create a compelling story of the undeniable power of the muse. (Deborah Donovan Booklist)Wieland is a vital voice in contemporary American fiction. Her prose is crisp, her voices are true, and her acuity is remarkable. (Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann)Land of Enchantment is a beautifully written, dizzyingly knowledgeable examination of the intersection between art and life. It is the best novel I've read in the past year." (Charles Frazier, winner of the National Book Award for Cold Mountain Charles Frazier)In the beautifully entangled "Land of Enchantment," events unfold on the surface but the novel's nutrients lie below, in the powerful pulse of art that runs through, and in the connections and disconnections between the characters. (Raleigh News and Observerer)
About the Author Liza Wieland is the author of three novels, three collections of short fiction, and a volume of poems. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. She teaches at East Carolina University and lives near Oriental, NC, with her husband and daughter.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Beautifully Written Book By Nancy A. A moving and beautifully constructed novel, Land of Enchantment explores the relationship between art and life, mothers and daughters, women and men. After I had finished the book, I turned back to the beginning to study how the author developed the story and its themes. It's that kind of novel.Brigid Long Night's language is color and form. After the tragic deaths of her Navajo/German parents she is employed by Georgia O'Keefe. New Yorker Julian Granger visits O'Keefe he and Brigid have a brief affair. Father Edgardo helps Brigid find a home for her baby and Brigid goes to New York City to start an art career that culminates in an installation at the World Trade Center.Sasha Hernandez has lost her adoptive parents. She knows her mother is the famous artist Brigid Schulman. A film student in New York City, she captured the falling bodies from the World Trade Center on 9-11. She meets Rodney, a psychologist whose friend Henry Diamond has been searching for information about his sister Nancy who jumped from a collapsing building.Wieland's book comes at the story from multiple viewpoints, utilizing first person and third person narratives, weaving the characters together in a complex interrelated web.At times I was so moved I shuddered and turned away and inward, remembering that day, those images, the shock and resulting disassociation.Art is compulsion for these characters: Brigid the painter, Sasha the film student, Nancy Diamond the playwright, Henry Diamond artist. It is how they process life.I was greatly impressed by this book."We have art in order not to die of the truth." Frederich NietzscheSyracuse Press through NetGalley provided me the e-book for a fair and unbiased review.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I knew that I was going to like this book right from the start because it was ... By Angela I knew that I was going to like this book right from the start because it was beautifully written right from the first sentences: “You can talk about most things, so they don’t need to be painted. You can talk about a horse flying along the rim of the canyon above Taos, New Mexico, in stark moonlight. You can almost talk about a woman speaking to the edge of the universe and then waiting for the echo. But the smell of pinion? The rub of three small stones inside your boot? The sigh of Proterozoic feldspar, schist, and gneiss? The float of the baby inside you, the father long gone? A Navajo man in the doorway of the bar and his entrance into the noon sun. The cant of his drunk walk, the nearly can’t. as if one’s leg were shorter, as if he’s entertaining some muscle memory of tribal dance, leaning toward the fire, balancing a crown of feathers, the palsy of his wrist the old shake of beads inside a gourd. “This is the story of three women, all artists, told in alternating chapters at various times in their lives. It’s a multilayered story about how they are connected – by blood, by art, by ideas, by chance. Brigid, part Navajo, a gifted artist and a pregnant teenager, Sasha , a college student and budding film maker , the daughter that Brigid gave up, and Nancy, a woman trying to find herself with dreams of being a playwright. It is not clear at first how Nancy would connect to them but yet I was engaged in all of their stories and then it becomes heartbreakingly apparent how these women are linked.It's about art and artists and family and identity , knowing who you are not just where you are from and knowing what to do even if you knew who you were. Georgia O'Keefe plays a role in the story as well as a mentor to Brigid, and the scenes and talks between them are lovely and thought provoking. There are even imaginary conversations between Georgia O'Keefe and Vermeer, Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson at strategic places in Nancy’s the budding playwright sections and these are fascinating and sometimes funny. I won’t give away the details, but there are some all too real details about 9/11 that I found difficult to read. I always think when there is something about 9/11 in a novel that it is too soon. The more I think about it, I don’t think that it’s because it’s too soon, but I think it’s painful because I lived in the time that it happened. Somehow it seems harder than events that happened before I was I was born because it is more real to me.The writing drew me in and continued to hold me and I kept wondering how I had not heard of this author before. I cared about these characters and also Nancy and Brigid's brothers who are also trying to find their way. Georgia O’Keefe is just as you would want her to be.I will definitely look at other books by Liza Wieland.Thanks to Syracuse University Press and NetGalley.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Original, Unpredictable, and Beautiful By KLC This book is wonderfully written. It reveals that pain is part of the beauty and richness of life; the choices the characters make often have messy consequences, but those are part of the depth and art of their stories; and, sometimes they have absolutely no control over the events around them and are left to pick up the pieces and make sense out things that don't. Each of the three leading women is strong, unique, and interesting. Their distinct perspectives lend to the complete originality of the book. There were many scenes and sentences that left me mesmerized and contemplating meaning and ideas. The other reviewers gave clear summaries and details, so I will just say that I loved how unpredictable the book is and how many times I gasped for air because of the unexpected. It did bring 911 back in a vivid and tangible way; it is difficult but important to read and remember; 911 is a part of the book, it connects the characters, but it is not a book about 911.
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