![]() These women find solace at the alley alongside its manager, Joe Wear, the boy who found Bertha at the graveyard before she tapped him to run the place, and its pinsetter, Jeptha Arrison, a dopey sad-sack Bertha met in the local hospital. ![]() Bertha invites women to bowl - “Let ‘em gawk,” she says of leering men - drawing in a horde of lost souls trapped in time, like LuEtta Mood, a beautiful young housewife grieving the death of a child. (Also, utterly New England: Candlepin is “a game of purity for former puritans.”) The majority of Bowlaway takes place at Truitt’s. McCracken’s clever narrator says in the first chapter, “Our subject is love because our subject is bowling” - two motifs that, by the end of this novel, feel inseparable, entwined. ![]()
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