{"id":17235,"date":"2016-08-04T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T00:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2016-08-05T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:45:18","slug":"mischa-berlinski-fieldwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17235","title":{"rendered":"Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unsolicited advertisement for Mischa Berlinksi&#8217;s first novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000SEIFKU\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">Fieldwork<\/a>. It&#8217;s a compelling mystery, fluently and charmingly told. Without being at all\u00a0pretentious, it&#8217;s also a challenging novel of ideas. Berlinski juxtaposes an imaginary Southeast Asian hill people\u00a0who have remarkable religious rites of their own, a three-generation family of American evangelical missionaries who are thoroughly acclimatized and\u00a0believe in the local gods (albeit as devils), a Dutch-American ethnologist who also happens to be a politically conservative woman, and a contemporary slacker dude. He describes everyone with respect and empathy. I can&#8217;t think of a way\u00a0to discuss\u00a0the issues Berlinski raises without spoiling the plot, so I will just say: read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unsolicited advertisement for Mischa Berlinksi&#8217;s first novel, Fieldwork. It&#8217;s a compelling mystery, fluently and charmingly told. Without being at all\u00a0pretentious, it&#8217;s also a challenging novel of ideas. Berlinski juxtaposes an imaginary Southeast Asian hill people\u00a0who have remarkable religious rites of their own, a three-generation family of American evangelical missionaries who are thoroughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17238,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions\/17238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}