![]() ![]() Yes, Ruth Zardo, the mad, brilliant poet in Louise Penny's How the Light Gets In has a pet duck named Rosa. And Rosa looked at Ruth, as Jean-Guy's hand caressed the feathers of Rosa's back, coming closer and closer to the long neck.įinally Jean-Guy's hand stopped, and rested. She watched Rosa, holding her dark duck eyes. ![]() "I could wring her neck, you know," he said. He seemed not to notice, but after a few moments he brought his hand up and stroked Rosa. She carefully placed Rosa on Jean-Guy's lap. lifted Rosa from her lap, feeling it warm where the duck had been. Here is a scene from the novel that features that poet, Ruth, and her pet duck, Rosa: I can think of few other writers who could sidestep cuteness in a scene that features an elderly female poet and her pet duck." ![]() In her review of How The Light Gets In for The Washington Post, Maureen Corrigan writes: "Penny's voice - occasionally amused, yet curiously formal - is what makes the world of her novels plausible. We also have an informative article about why Quebec speaks French written for Bury Your Dead (#9). We did not write a featured review or beyond the book article of The Nature of The Beast so here is an earlier "Beyond the Book" written for How The Light Gets In. This article relates to The Nature of the Beast ![]()
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