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Also by Karen Joy Fowler. Sarah Canary is about accepting that, sometimes, there’s no definitive reading. Fowler’s immense skill in this book is directed at a kind of reticence, at not giving us answers while still making us ask questions.

Also by Karen Joy Fowler. You only comprehend things which you perceive. i. The years after the American Civil War were characterized by excess, ornamented by cults and corruptions. Calamity Jane rode her horse through Indian country, standing on her head, her tangled hair loose along the horse’s sides.

He smiled at Sarah Canary, who was noisily finishing her bread. Burke gestured extravagantly, knocking a book from the top of a crate. His voice was the loudest in the room, louder than the rain, which hit the wall with a sound like a thousand stones, louder than the wind, which rang like a celestial gong. Wherever Burke sat, Chin felt that the center of the room shifted to that spot.

Sarah Canary’s room would be right next to Harold’s, of course. Locked, he imagined, although he did not try the knob. Harold would have locked her in at night and kept the key with him as he slept, underestimating her cunning. N. Chin looked at the chopstick in his hand and saw that it was his own chopstick, his own good fortune, his own long life. Did Sarah Canary give you this?’ he asked. That’s what she did,’ said Harold. He coughed, holding both his hands over his stomach, and the cough was unproductive and apparently painful, but Harold repeated it anyway.

Karen Joy Fowler (born February 7, 1950) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club that was made into a movie of the same name. Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and spent the first eleven years of her life there. Her family then moved to Palo Alto, California

He remembered how, when he’d removed the chair, Tom’s boots had taken their last walk several feet above the ground. He thought again of the Chinese miners herded into the air by Indians.

He remembered how, when he’d removed the chair, Tom’s boots had taken their last walk several feet above the ground. No leaps, no choice, just the unavoidable indifferent rocks of fate. Someday Chin would be pushed over that cliff. And who could say this was not what he deserved? How many mistakes could he expect Sarah Canary to forgive him? Assuming she really was an immortal, which Chin didn’t, in fact, believe anymore. Not that he believed otherwise, exactly.

Given this, why do you think Karen Joy Fowler leaves the question of Sarah Canary 's identity a mystery? . 4. Why do you think Fowler has intertwined her narrative with short chapters of actual events from the nineteenth century?

Given this, why do you think Karen Joy Fowler leaves the question of Sarah Canary 's identity a mystery? 3. How important is Sarah Canary 's identity? 4. Why do you think Fowler has intertwined her narrative with short chapters of actual events from the nineteenth century? 5. Why do you think Fowler begins many chapters with quotes from Emily Dickinson? 6. Sarah Canary is set in the Washington Territory in the 1870s, just after the American Civil War. From a historical and geographic standpoint, what is the significance of this setting for Sarah Canary ? 7. Chin talks about the one-w.

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