{"id":612,"date":"2011-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=612"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T03:12:25","slug":"forecastturbulence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/forecastturbulence\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecast:Turbulence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Janette Turner Hospital<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>HarperCollins<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, November 19th 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Janette Turner Hospital\u2019s latest short story collection is a beautiful, hand-sized volume perfect for dipping into at leisure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Appropriately titled<em> Forecast:Turbulence<\/em>, the tales within are distillations of upheaval and violence (both physical and emotional) whose protagonists are swept along by events that threaten to overwhelm them: sisters living with the shame of their father\u2019s sins, a lonely young man who becomes obsessed with a beautiful neighbour, the disintegration of family after the disappearance of a child.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In an inversion of the Joycean epiphany through stillness, the tension builds inexorably through each story, culminating in the sudden calmness found at the eye of the storm.\u00a0 This structure is echoed in the arrangement of the collection.\u00a0 In contrast to the disturbing and shocking stories that precede it, the final piece is a slice of memoir centred about the rivers that have flown through her family\u2019s history, and the fact that nothing in our lives remains fixed.\u00a0 Yet somehow in the midst of turbulence we somehow find equilibrium.\u00a0 This is the achievement that these stories celebrate, each in their own way.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/tales-upheaval-and-violence\">https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/tales-upheaval-and-violence<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janette Turner Hospital<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review November 19th 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[126,370,145,18,375],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-126","tag-fiction","tag-janette-turner-hospital","tag-odt","tag-short-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}