{"id":3739,"date":"2014-01-15T05:37:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2014-06-14T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:39:56","slug":"the-grievers-by-marc-schuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"The Grievers By Marc Schuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dactylreview.com\/2014\/01\/15\/the-grievers-by-marc-schuster\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3740\" title=\"the-grievers\" src=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/the-grievers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>This wry, touching novel, <em>The Grievers <\/em>(The Permanent Press, 175 pages), takes an intelligent look at the meaning of friendship, a distinctly pertinent topic in an age when \u201cfriend\u201d and \u201cunfriend\u201d are ubiquitous verbs referring mostly to people we\u2019ve never met. It\u2019s a novel of ideas that also dares to be funny, a dangerous strategy when so many critics see humor as a crime against literature. 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