There are subliminal echoes of L. Frank Baum in Volmer’s mythmaking…. But Volmer keeps whimsy in check with a terse present-tense voice that invests her pioneers piquant inner lives and a poker-faced lyricism.
There are subliminal echoes of L. Frank Baum in Volmer’s mythmaking…. But Volmer keeps whimsy in check with a terse present-tense voice that invests her pioneers piquant inner lives and a poker-faced lyricism.