Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück plays If you were a mouse

If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese

No just God would allow someone like you to exist

at others an intimate study in totalitarian psychology

he demolishes conventional definitions of success while looking toward a culture based on trust and humility

a Chinese mafia leader and a freelance agent for several governments

Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück plays If you were a mouseMarigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glck. Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V. So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glcks astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafkas The Metamorphosis, an incandescent