#gavin tomson

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Gavin Tomson, The Awl

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http://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/gavin-tomson

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One of the only things that Tiffany does actively and for her own sake is sleep with men who are not her husband. In The Wallcreeper, adultery abounds. Unfaithful sex is so abundant, actually, that it becomes repetitive and monotonous, more like Pong than porn. One of the many men in Tiffany’s life, Gernot, a 'radical priest,' explains to Tiffany — the novel is full of mansplainers — that “‘it takes conditions of artificial scarcity to make satisfying basic needs seem beautiful. Our society works hard to make food and sex as scarce as beauty and love.’” Does Tiffany sleep around because she finds sex beautiful? This could be true, but it could also be untrue. A frustrating aspect of reading the The Wallcreeper is that it keeps raising such questions while leaving the answers, like the birds its two main characters chase across Europe, up in the air.

Recommended Reading: Gavin Tomson on Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper.