Hete Deal Visible Worlds – Bowering, Marilyn

Marilyn Bowering’s Visible Worlds introduces at least 12 characters, cuts from Winnipeg to Siberia to the North Pole, shifts back and forth in time from 1960 to 1934 and depicts three crucial deaths. And that’s just the first 14 pages. There’s more to come–much more–in this book that takes on the Great Depression, World War II and the Korean War, exploring their effects on three improbably intertwined families. The plot’s remarkable contortions are too labyrinthine to describe here, but suffice to say the…