{"id":171345,"date":"2025-08-04T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=171345"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:16:44","slug":"sundress-what-a-beautiful-shiny-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/04\/sundress-what-a-beautiful-shiny-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundress: What a Beautiful Shiny Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-173108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screenshot-2026-03-04-at-171518-1024x716.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screenshot-2026-03-04-at-171518-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screenshot-2026-03-04-at-171518-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screenshot-2026-03-04-at-171518-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/screenshot-2026-03-04-at-171518.png 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the\u00a0<\/i>Review\u2019<i>s site. Often we\u2019re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you. Here are some we found this month.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u2014Sophie Haigney, web editor, and Olivia Kan-Sperling, assistant editor<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europaeditions.com\/book\/9798889661313\/the-old-man-by-the-sea\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Old Man by the Sea<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions), translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sundress: what a beautiful shiny word; my mother used to wear a light blue one that she sewed for herself. She made everything she wore with her own two hands, she was a dressmaker. For a few months in 1954, she even had a shop, which she called her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but\u00edk. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But she made more clothes for herself than for her clients, and she knew how to make herself look far more beautiful than any of the women who paid her to make them look good. Even when she had to go out to buy bread or fruit, she\u2019d walk out of our low-income building looking like a rich movie actress, like a different mother entirely, whether she had on her winter coat with its astrakhan collar, or a pencil skirt, or a bell skirt, or her sundress. And maybe she actually was a different woman, that\u2019s how I see her now anyway, my eyeglasses briny with the sea air, my nerves shot, cataracts clouding my sight. When she went in the water, she\u2019d never go in deep and she always swam the breast stroke: her long neck extended, her chin held high, her mouth closed so as not to swallow the salt water, her small ears with their delicate lobes. She often lost things on the beach she considered precious, and when she started digging desperately in the sand, we children would always try and help.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Roger Shattuck\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/the-forbidden-experiment\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forbidden Experiment<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(NYRB Classics)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">originally published in 1980, a reconstruction of the nineteenth-century case of a \u201cwild boy\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a true story, as true as I can tell it. The story recounts an extraordinary life that was neither good nor evil nor conventionally heroic. The Wild Boy of Aveyron survived on the outer edges of humanity in a state of something like moral weightlessness. We have no need to pass judgment on him, only to take account of so remarkable a case. The appeal of the story lies in a rare combination of uncertainty and hope lodged in the events themselves, and in the way those events seem to touch our own lives.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Kate Riley\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/738747\/ruth-by-kate-riley\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruth<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Riverhead)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7951\/l-r-kate-riley\">portion of which<\/a> was previously adapted for <em>The Paris Review<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruth knew she could not be entirely defective, because she loved Christmas. To have the trust of babies and animals; to delight in a God who made lady slippers and spotted toadstools; and to know with mind, body, and soul that God hung lower during the Christmas season: these were the qualifications required for humanity, and at least she managed one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Ch\u2019ing-Chih, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one of three novellas collected in Kaori Lai\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/portraits-in-white\/9780231220101\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portraits in White<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Columbia University Press), translated from the Chinese by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If cooked rice could be as abundant as the words he was learning, he would eat three big bowlfuls without a second thought, eat until he was full, full and contented. When his grandma, who couldn\u2019t read, saw him writing on a sheet of paper, she reverently admonished him to never burn any paper with writing on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCherish Writing Pavilion, ever hear of it?\u201d She picked up his exercise book and looked it over carefully, as if it included written incantations. \u201cDon\u2019t throw this away. When the junk collector comes, we\u2019ll ask him to send it to Cherish Writing Pavilion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat do we send it there for?\u201d he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo be burned like gilded spirit paper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCan even writing be offered to deities?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She responded with a self-assured nod. \u201cGrandma will go with Kiyoshi to worship the Patriarch of Literary Study when he has an exam.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From \u201cPride,\u201d in Anne Waldman\u2019s new book of poetry, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/690646\/mesopotopia-by-anne-waldman\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mesopotopia<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Penguin):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Where to run?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Practice of dolls and their cosmos\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For dark love of self<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goddesses, I the courtyard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much more than I, the courtyard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carry a voice and will not move \u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New books by Kate Riley, Kaori Lai, Roger Shattuck, Domenico Starnone, and Anne 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