![]() ![]() Who was the ferryman? The ferryman rowed villagers and tourists across the Deep and Great Lakes, often for stories instead of a fee. This push and tug of past and present, myth and precise contemporary detail, create a sense of slippery links between story and fact that pervades Before the Feast. ![]() ![]() By the banks of a lake where the ferryman once rowed, “there’s a fridge stuck in the muddy ground, with a can of tuna still in it.” The can of tuna, we learn, made the ferryman angry. The ferryman is dead.” With that, we readers are sent to some mythic ferryman-incorporating past, only to be yanked back to the present further down the first page. From the opening lines of Saša Stanišić’s Before the Feast, the reader sits as if at the feet of the novel’s storytelling narrator, the first person plural collective voice of a village. ![]()
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