Summerwater, Sarah Moss
…are brief chapters comprising lyrical and often ominous reports of the wildlife surrounding the human-made structures: the natural world is … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Literary
The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun
In this entertaining eco-thriller, the heroine curates holiday packages in disaster zones. –The Guardian An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist … Continue reading →
The Golden Rule, Amanda Craig
Earnest economic expositions and detours on “the national quarrel” over leaving the EU, along with marriage’s financial disadvantages for women … Continue reading →
Seasonal Series, Ali Smith
Echoing Keats’s famous ode, the book is punctuated by placid country scenes of grain being harvested, birds flying south, days … Continue reading →
The Unpassing, Chia-Chia Lin
With flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of … Continue reading →
Sharks in the Time of Saviours, Kawai Strong Washburn
In 1994 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores is saved from drowning by a shiver of sharks. His family, struggling … Continue reading →
God Shot, Chelsea Bieker
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and … Continue reading →
The Yield, Tara June Winch
Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. … Continue reading →
A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet
In an age where the young justifiably blame the old for the devastation of the planet, this dystopian tale of … Continue reading →
Stay and Fight, Madeline Ffitch
Set in a region known for its independent spirit, Stay and Fight shakes up what it means to be a … Continue reading →