Piltdown Lad #7: The Murky Realm
by Kelly Dessaint
5.5 X 7 /44 pages / $3 + postage
I’ve never described a zine as a “pageturner” - until now. I
read The Murky Realm in one sitting,
literally unable (as the cliché goes) to put the zine down. Why? I love writing
that explores the mysteries of family origins through the distance of time
& a personal lens. Kelly Dessaint is an agile storyteller who relates the
circumstances of his parents meeting and their tumultuous relationship.
Dessaint’s unfolding of his mother and father’s early life and courtship &
his father’s experiences as a veteran and life with his friends is meticulously
crafted and thoroughly fascinating. His parents’ emotional landscapes are
vividly explored through letters written between them and Dessaint’s “creative engineering”. Nuanced and honest, The Murky Realm is on my must read again list.
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