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A review by slferg
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
5.0
A spell-binding read with amazing details and stories. This one is going to stay with me and simmer for awhile in the subconscious.
Denise Kranis and her brother Nik have their own world they live in. Their mother worked a night shift, so they looked after each other and took care of each other for years. Nik has mostly withdrawn from the world except for his bartending job, but he continues to write and record music and chronicles a parallel life as Nik Worth with an amazing following for his bands. He did have a couple of bands at one time, but they have pretty much gone their separate ways. He also has volumes and volumes of articles and reviews, etc that he has written himself. And he continues to put out his CDs in a limited edition with an elaborate scheme of album covers and liner notes. Then Denise's daughter, Ada, wants to make an independent documentary on Nik's career and Chronicles.
Who wouldn't want to have such a rich life in imagination and based on fact. Nik's band almost did make a record, but the guy setting it up blew up the deal when Nik and the band didn't want him for a manager. Nik is having his own crisis, whether it has to do with the video Ada is making or with the approach of his 50th birthday and the death of a former bandmate. Denise is worrying over this. He started many years ago issuing his "Ontology of Worth" starting with Number 20 and going backward. He has just given her a copy of Number 1. The covers of the Ontology all put together, make a collage of Nik. His music is amazing and she loves it. But the issue of Number 1 worries her as well. Nik has finished his ontology - and what will he do now?
Denise Kranis and her brother Nik have their own world they live in. Their mother worked a night shift, so they looked after each other and took care of each other for years. Nik has mostly withdrawn from the world except for his bartending job, but he continues to write and record music and chronicles a parallel life as Nik Worth with an amazing following for his bands. He did have a couple of bands at one time, but they have pretty much gone their separate ways. He also has volumes and volumes of articles and reviews, etc that he has written himself. And he continues to put out his CDs in a limited edition with an elaborate scheme of album covers and liner notes. Then Denise's daughter, Ada, wants to make an independent documentary on Nik's career and Chronicles.
Who wouldn't want to have such a rich life in imagination and based on fact. Nik's band almost did make a record, but the guy setting it up blew up the deal when Nik and the band didn't want him for a manager. Nik is having his own crisis, whether it has to do with the video Ada is making or with the approach of his 50th birthday and the death of a former bandmate. Denise is worrying over this. He started many years ago issuing his "Ontology of Worth" starting with Number 20 and going backward. He has just given her a copy of Number 1. The covers of the Ontology all put together, make a collage of Nik. His music is amazing and she loves it. But the issue of Number 1 worries her as well. Nik has finished his ontology - and what will he do now?