Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi

Frankie McMillan is one of the leading writers of the short-shortform in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi, her seventh book, seesher at her best. The prose poems and small stories here demonstrate exceptionalrange, examining the tiniest psychodramas but also meditating on drownings andshootings and infidelities and nuclear warfare. McMillan finds the unusual inthe everyday, and she is equally at home with lovers embracing in the fieldsand with reclusive aunts fading away in poky old houses. This is writing thatreveals humans working out how to be their ridiculous and beautiful littleselves. This is writing that feels like thinking.