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008			120112s1995 nyu 000 1 eng d
010			_a95157032
020			_a9781877727450
042			_alccopycat
050	0	0	_aPS3569.A459187 _bL56 1995
082	0	0	_aFIC SAL
100	1		_aSalazar, Dixie
245	1	0	_aLimbo _b: a novel _c/ by Dixie Salazar
250			_a1st ed
260			_aFredonia, NY _b: White Pine Press _c, c1995.
300			_a206 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aSalazar's first novel is about a few months in the life of Cassiopeia Quinlan as she struggles to make a living, support her four-year-old daughter and track down her deadbeat husband so she can get divorced. The story flashes between episodes of Cassie's current life in Fresno, Calif., and scenes from her childhood: a depressing series of false starts with her flaky mother, Eileen. Salazar obviously hopes to show both how Cassiopeia is in danger of repeating her mother's pattern, and her potential to break away from it. The author succeeds in part but relies too heavily on characterization and setting at the expense of a viable plot. Salazar's men are not fully developed, and the women, if colorful, are predictable, too often reminiscent of Ellen Gilchrist or Barbara Kingsolver. Salazar's gift for setting is unmistakable, but insight is lacking in Cassie's final epiphanies, such as: ``How quickly the past becomes the future, she thought, which then becomes the past even as we think it.''
650		4	_aFiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c260986 _d260986