In A.G. Mojtabai's new novel, Shine on Me , a group of contestants vie to win a pick-up truck by keeping their hands on its hood, an endurance test based on an actual Texas car dealership's competition. What appears to be, on the surface, realism, is in fact closer to allegory; and though she could not be more stylistically different, a novel like Shine On reveals Mojtabai to be closer in sensibility to a Marilynne Robinson than to any other "realist" writers working today.
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In A.G. Mojtabai's new novel, Shine on Me , a group of contestants vie to win a pick-up truck by keeping their hands on its hood, an endurance test based on an actual Texas car dealership's competition. What appears to be, on the surface, realism, is in fact closer to allegory; and though she could not be more stylistically different, a novel like Shine On reveals Mojtabai to be closer in sensibility to a Marilynne Robinson than to any other "realist" writers working today.
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