31, 2008, “the last day of the lousiest year of their lives,” Lena thinks as she prepares a New Year’s Eve dinner. It’s not that Edgarian had to have three children and found an online literary magazine ( Narrative) to understand the conflicts of a middle-aged couple in crisis - a good fiction writer can imagine anything - but the weight of lived experience gives a specific gravity to her account of a year that tests to the limit Lena Rusch and Charlie Pepper’s comfortable assumptions about the world and their privileged place in it.
Yet that long pause feels right when you read “ Three Stages of Amazement,” her rueful, wholly adult second novel. It’s been 17 years since Carol Edgarian’s best-selling, critically acclaimed first novel, “ Rise the Euphrates,” announced the arrival of a gifted and ambitious young writer.
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