Posted on 03/05/08
Tightrope-walking in the dark
STUNT By Claudia DeyCoach House, 245 pages, $19.95Claudia Dey, playwright and writer for this newspaper's Group Therapy column, is admittedly fascinated with peoples' interior lives. In Stunt, her debut novel, Dey cracks open the intricate interior life of Eugenia Ledoux, the irresistible nine-year-old narrator who is abandoned by her father, Sheb, portrait artist and collector of birth notices. Convinced that her father did not actually mean to leave her behind with Mink, her self-obsessed professional dancer turned B-movie actress mother, and Immaculata, her death-obsessed sister, Eugenia sets out to make sense of his abrupt departure.
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