'Vacuum In The Dark' Is Fun, Funny — But Never Frivolous
Jen Beagin is a wonderfully funny writer with a knack for serious subjects. Her exuberant new novel follows a young house cleaner who grew up too fast and is trying to reinvent herself.
At some point in their careers, all authors have heard some variation on the advice "Grab the reader from the front page." For some writers of literary fiction, this translates to "Describe the sun shining on a New England lake in very exacting detail," or something of that nature.
In her new novel, , Jen Beagin has decided to go a different way. The book opens with a house cleaner accidentally washing her hands with human feces, believing is famously broadcast on a public radio network (the name of which escapes me at the moment).
