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Stacey D’Erasmo
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Abandoned by his father and confused about his sexuality, Gabriel finds solace at a young age in breaking into houses to steal random objects that he places in boxes stored underneath his bed. These boxes become his obsessions; they are his alternate universes where he imposes order, free of the people problems he encounters in his day-to-day existence. He continues adding to his collections into adulthood, giving very little thought to his amoral behavior. Gabriel’s life in post-9/11 New York City, dulled by his mind-numbing job as an obituary writer at a fading news journal, certainly intensifies his kleptomania. And his only excitement becomes an unhealthy attachment to a house that he knows he will never own. His delusional preoccupation with the house causes him to resort to very questionable actions to secure a down payment, including (among far more serious grievances) blackmailing a dying writer for whom he ghostwrites. There seems to be nothing this man will not do to get what he wants, yet his yearning for life in an ideal world will never be realized. Stacey D’Erasmo non-judgmentally documents the quintessential dreamer’s strivings for unrealized dreams and her language is as starkly exquisite as the world that he creates.
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