Landscape at the edge of destruction

Book Review of William LuvaasWELCOME TO SAINT ANGEL in THE WAGON MAGAZINE

Landscape at the edge of destruction
Reviewed by Robin Throne
What drives us to the edges of self-destruction? Ruin? What facilitates the need to protect a landscape that becomes us? Restores us? To protect a space where we at last find ourselves rooted- it is in this use of absurdity and humor amid a dreadful conflict that illustrates Luvaas’ masterful technique of shifting points of view and uses of shifting dialogues, interior to character-to-character, and gives voice to the landscape that underscores the quick pace of this read…