Grove Atlantic
Stephanie Bishop does a great job withholding information and she is also good at tying together the narrative’s many loose ends.
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Crooked Hallelujah is a splendid debut, its intricately structured narrative following four generations of a matriarchal family from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
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Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.
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Summer Cannibals’ main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.
Read MoreJack Taylor is a Beckettian character on the skids; he can’t go on, and yet he goes on.
Read MoreRoxane Gay is a bold writer of impressive range who experiments with magic realism, dystopia, and fantasy.
Read MoreThis is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.
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