I love Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons so much. The marital tension is a bit jarring; Jackson tucks it away inside a bunch of contemporary cliches, but it still would stop me dead even as I tore through a rereading. I mean, it's way worse in Thurber. But aside from that, which is intermittent, she's just so good at writing in that funny mode. The mode turns up in some of her fiction, I think notably The Bird's Nest, but it has a different effect there.

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