![]() ![]() When you buy something, on the other hand, no bond is created the checkout person never thinks of me again. Gifts are, Hyde says, an important way to create ties between strangers: a gifted cigarette, cookies for the new neighbors. Hyde’s book is a study of gift-giving and the relationship between an artist and the recipient of the artwork (a reader, in my case). ![]() Masie Cochran, an editor at Tin House, called my agent and said she wanted to buy it, “as long as she reworks the scene where the sleepwalking sister kills all the chickens.”Īnd then, finally, only then, perhaps to celebrate, I bought and read The Gift. I was one of the lucky ones, and my first book, Rabbit Cake, was bought, eventually, following a healthy amount of rejection. ![]()
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