Like many such volumes the collection suffers from variation, not in quality so much as relevance. Her latest book is Everywhere I Look, an assemblage of essays, reviews and diary entries, some of which go back decades. The circumstances behind her learning of the award (the email had gone to a junk folder and she had initially suspected a scam) set off a flurry of clickbait-style headlines (“Woman accidentally discovers she won $150,000 by checking her junk email” went one), but the anecdote is actually in keeping with the character of her work: a genuine literary achievement pickled in a brine of intense self-reflection and self-doubt. Earlier this month Garner became a beneficiary of the Windham-Campbell literary prize for her non-fiction work.
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