{"id":1355,"date":"2010-01-22T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:16:32","slug":"fiction_the_fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/fiction_the_fly.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: The Flying Troutmans, by Miriam Toews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A roadtrip novel!  You KNOW how I feel about roadtrips, right?  (PRO.)  I also bought this book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/seduced_by_prai.html\">while on a road trip<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Just as with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/fiction_a_compl.html\">earlier novel &#8220;A Complicated Kindness&#8221;<\/a> (at least I think it was earlier. It was earlier for me!), this book is full of really quirky and quirkily strong characters.  Unusual, unexpected, unpretentious.<\/p>\n<p>Fun but sometimes exasperating and sometimes worry-inducing.  The frustrations of family.<\/p>\n<p>Although: when I read the blurb in the back about another book of hers &#8220;Summer of My Amazing Luck&#8221; the plot seems eerily similar to this one. (And by eerily I don&#8217;t mean eerie, I mean, is she writing the same book again?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roadtrip novel! You KNOW how I feel about roadtrips, right? (PRO.) I also bought this book while on a road trip! Just as with her earlier novel &#8220;A Complicated Kindness&#8221; (at least I think it was earlier. It was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/fiction_the_fly.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}