"Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don’t when they are happy."
Have you ever dreamed of looking at life the way you used to when you were a child ? In Foster, witness the blooming of a child in the Irish countryside during one summer. It's all about healing your inner child.
I who have never known a better read !
40 women locked up until the day they flee. This story tells womanhood, love and death and questions the value of knownledge. I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting story that tackles the big questions, but provides no answers. I still think about it everyday !
Solène
Yellowface is a thriller full of irony and cynicism about the publishing and, overall, the literary world. The way we follow June as our main character, with her condescension, her racism and her (white) gaze through a success that doesn't belong to her, makes everything deeper and more nuanced about the critics that are being made against literary agencies, publishing house and systemic racism.
Though the middle part was maybe a bit too long and a bit too dramatic for me, I was not once bored, just waiting to know how all of this will unfold and explose. Tension is everywhere, well dosed and extraordinary well written.
Camille.
Yellowface is a thriller full of irony and cynicism about the publishing and, overall, the literary world. The way we follow June as our main character, with her condescension, her racism and her (white) gaze through a success that doesn't belong to her, makes everything deeper and more nuanced about the critics that are being made against literary agencies, publishing house and systemic racism.
Though the middle part was maybe a bit too long and a bit too dramatic for me, I was not once bored, just waiting to know how all of this will unfold and explose. Tension is everywhere, well dosed and extraordinary well written.
Camille.
An intense novella about giant birds haunting monsters, friendship and failure.
Inspired this time by beasts from the Middle East and Persian mythology (the Roc and the Manticore), Fonda Lee excels, through her -maybe too short- coming of age novella of a young ruhker and and her roc, at depincting complicated and nuanced ways of learning, feeling but also failing.
Untethered Sky is an intense story about humans, beasts, wilderness, and the fatality of disaster coming plunging from the sky, and sometimes, the great beauty of it.