Love Street

Lori A. Dunn is an ESL teacher, instructional designer, and freelance
writer in New Westminster, B.C.

Susan Perly transcends literary boundaries with this novel-length
monologue. The jazzy, bluesy voice is that of Miss Mercy, a New Orleans
radio talk show personality who bombards the reader with an unrelenting
stream of cultural references, incomplete thoughts and sentences, and
flights of linguistic fancy. Love Street is emphatically not for the
seeker of sedate prose, or even a storyline. While I admire the
author’s experiments with language, they make for arduous reading.
Perhaps the essential question that Perly raises in this novel-of-sorts
is what it truly means to read.