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Totally original in conception and execution, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and, ultimately, emotionally devastating. Grushin is dealing with issues of women's identity, of women's choices, in a way no modern novel has explored so deeply. When our protagonist finds her children grown and her husband absent, she must evaluate the choices that led her away from her bohemian poet dream and into a comfortable marriage. Was it a life well lived? A life complete? Does such a life really exist? This ambiguity is the core of this provocative novel.
'Praise for Forty Rooms
"It is author Olga Grushin's tantalizing storytelling device that pulls her readers through the narrative as if wandering through an architect's blueprint of a home still very much under construction. In "Forty Rooms" she has found an original storytelling device that should add to her growing acclaim." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune"[An] ingenious and original conceit... Forty Rooms is a deft, engaging novel written with rare eloquence. But a ferociously uncompromising morality play lurks within it." - Wall Street Journal"The structure of Olga Grushin's FORTY ROOMS is ingeniously simple...there is enough material to warrant hours of contemplation...The reader's impulse to grapple with the text, to wrestle it down and to raise objections or to attempt to identify her own place in the context of the story, is a sign not of weakness, but of Grushin's genius. There is no redemption story to relax into here, and no easy answers...This novel reminds us that to pursue her dreams, a woman is working against the establishment, not with it. To the young women into whose hands I will most certainly be putting Grushin's novel, I will say this: You can do it all, but together we can create a world in which we might be able to do more. Because if we don't keep working for greater gender equality, it's not in the best interests of the current power brokers to stop us from continuing to spend more than a fair share of our lives elbow-deep in soapsuds whether we choose to or not." -- Alexandra Fuller, New York Times Book Review"Grushin is too sly to be bound by cliché. If Mrs. Caldwell fails to be true to herself-and that "if" is sincere-this is because there are real questions about who that true self is. These are questions that women, especially, will recognize. Honest, tender, and exquisitely crafted. A novel to savor." - Kirkus , starred review"[A]n enchanted meditation on poetry and life... Grushin best captures the nagging regrets of her tortured artist in a magically lyrical pair of conversations with her bitter and bowed husband." - Publishers Weekly"This book is captivating in both concept and execution. It's a collection of 40 short stories that follow a woman through her life, one story for each room she inhabits, from her childhood home to her college apartment to her first house and beyond. We're with her when, as a young girl, she talks with a mermaid in her mother's bedroom, and when, as a grown woman, her marriage begins to crumble. Filled with beautiful and surreal moments that perfectly capture the magic that can exist in real life, this book has extraordinary depth of imagination and emotion." - Bustle"A young female poet, shedding Soviet Moscow for an American education, wants only "to live in a timeless poem." But time catches up to her with brutal stealth, and before too long she's "Mrs. Caldwell," a wealthy suburban housewife without a stanza to show for it. Grushin, the Russian-American author of the extraordinary Dream Life of Sukhanov , spins a Bovary plot into a mystical tapestry, complete with ghostly harbingers, jarring shifts in perspective, and linguistic fillips most native-born writers would envy. She also crafts a feminist response to Joyce's Stephen Dedalus - an artist navigating life backwards in heels." -Boris Kachka, Vulture"Grushin is after something beyond the conflict between artistic expression and the aspirations of well-to-do suburbanites, or even the question of whether Mrs. Caldwell has sold out. The genius of Forty Rooms is instead its suggestion that a betrayal of childhood dreams can still allow for a life filled with meaning, one that is contradictory, replete with loss, contentment, regret and its own definition of purpose. Forty Rooms is a beautiful, moving novel of dreams that reflects life as it is lived." -Jeanette Zwart, Shelf Awareness"Sly and devastat
"It is author Olga Grushin's tantalizing storytelling device that pulls her readers through the narrative as if wandering through an architect's blueprint of a home still very much under construction. In "Forty Rooms" she has found an original storytelling device that should add to her growing acclaim." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune"[An] ingenious and original conceit... Forty Rooms is a deft, engaging novel written with rare eloquence. But a ferociously uncompromising morality play lurks within it." - Wall Street Journal"The structure of Olga Grushin's FORTY ROOMS is ingeniously simple...there is enough material to warrant hours of contemplation...The reader's impulse to grapple with the text, to wrestle it down and to raise objections or to attempt to identify her own place in the context of the story, is a sign not of weakness, but of Grushin's genius. There is no redemption story to relax into here, and no easy answers...This novel reminds us that to pursue her dreams, a woman is working against the establishment, not with it. To the young women into whose hands I will most certainly be putting Grushin's novel, I will say this: You can do it all, but together we can create a world in which we might be able to do more. Because if we don't keep working for greater gender equality, it's not in the best interests of the current power brokers to stop us from continuing to spend more than a fair share of our lives elbow-deep in soapsuds whether we choose to or not." -- Alexandra Fuller, New York Times Book Review"Grushin is too sly to be bound by cliché. If Mrs. Caldwell fails to be true to herself-and that "if" is sincere-this is because there are real questions about who that true self is. These are questions that women, especially, will recognize. Honest, tender, and exquisitely crafted. A novel to savor." - Kirkus , starred review"[A]n enchanted meditation on poetry and life... Grushin best captures the nagging regrets of her tortured artist in a magically lyrical pair of conversations with her bitter and bowed husband." - Publishers Weekly"This book is captivating in both concept and execution. It's a collection of 40 short stories that follow a woman through her life, one story for each room she inhabits, from her childhood home to her college apartment to her first house and beyond. We're with her when, as a young girl, she talks with a mermaid in her mother's bedroom, and when, as a grown woman, her marriage begins to crumble. Filled with beautiful and surreal moments that perfectly capture the magic that can exist in real life, this book has extraordinary depth of imagination and emotion." - Bustle"A young female poet, shedding Soviet Moscow for an American education, wants only "to live in a timeless poem." But time catches up to her with brutal stealth, and before too long she's "Mrs. Caldwell," a wealthy suburban housewife without a stanza to show for it. Grushin, the Russian-American author of the extraordinary Dream Life of Sukhanov , spins a Bovary plot into a mystical tapestry, complete with ghostly harbingers, jarring shifts in perspective, and linguistic fillips most native-born writers would envy. She also crafts a feminist response to Joyce's Stephen Dedalus - an artist navigating life backwards in heels." -Boris Kachka, Vulture"Grushin is after something beyond the conflict between artistic expression and the aspirations of well-to-do suburbanites, or even the question of whether Mrs. Caldwell has sold out. The genius of Forty Rooms is instead its suggestion that a betrayal of childhood dreams can still allow for a life filled with meaning, one that is contradictory, replete with loss, contentment, regret and its own definition of purpose. Forty Rooms is a beautiful, moving novel of dreams that reflects life as it is lived." -Jeanette Zwart, Shelf Awareness"Sly and devastat