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BOOK NOTES FOR "THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS: A NOVEL"

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From Largehearted Boy : In the  Book Notes  series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.  Previous contributors include  Bret Easton Ellis ,  Kate Christensen ,  Kevin Brockmeier ,  George Pelecanos ,  Dana Spiotta ,  Amy Bloom ,  Aimee Bender ,  Myla Goldberg ,  Heidi Julavits ,  Hari Kunzru , and many others. Kevin P. Keating's  The Natural Order of Things  is an intriguingly told, dark and often disturbing novel-in-stories. Booklist wrote of the book:   "This is Peyton Place sunk a few rungs lower in hell, featuring the abuse of animals, prostitutes, handicapped children, and just about every husband and wife in town. Keating's prose, though, is serpentine and sinewy and all-around gorgeous; if Jack Ketchum had plotted Franzen's The Corrections (2001), it might’ve looked something like this." READ THE ENTIRE ESSAY HERE