![]() ![]() B) named Eleanor Turnbull, caught the eye of the 34-year-old ballet dancer Robert Martin, who rechristened her Isabel Osmond and married her, helping protect her from Mr. ![]() ![]() She deftly arranges her characters’ betrayals, fidelities and accumulated disappointments to portray a family stymied by its own silences, one in which “nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves.” In the ’60s Carlisle’s mother, then a 15-year-old student of Balanchine (Mr. With “They’re Going to Love You,” Howrey, a former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet who previously revisited the ballet world in her 2012 novel “ The Cranes Dance ,” proves herself a talented choreographer in her own right. In other words, this is “not an art form suited for portraying complicated family relationships, or psychological subtleties.”īut literature is. “There are no mothers-in-law in ballet,” she paraphrases the renowned choreographer George Balanchine. Carlisle Martin, the 43-year-old choreographer protagonist at the center of Meg Howrey’s fourth novel, struggles to make dances that will disrupt classical ballet’s often formulaic roles and plotlines. ![]()
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