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height="460" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28120408/letterstoforget.jpg" class=" book_loop_thumb-img attachment-large size-large book-cover-border" alt="" loading="lazy"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f07ef0c" data-id="f07ef0c" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated">  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-35c4ca3f elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="35c4ca3f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-a6fb22d elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Poetry</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-e25d5eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="e25d5eb" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-33114ab2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="33114ab2" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h1 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/letters-to-forget-kelly-caldwell-book-review/">Letters to Forget</a></h1> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-3ced357 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="3ced357" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">The poems in Kelly Caldwell’s debut collection, <b>Letters to Forget</b>, have a thudding, propulsive intensity that is hard to look away from. As much as any poetry can be, they are the living stuff of the world.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5960b0fb trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-excerpt" data-id="5960b0fb" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-excerpt.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> The poems in Kelly Caldwell’s debut collection, <b>Letters to Forget</b>, have a thudding, propulsive intensity that is hard to look away from. As much as any poetry can be, they are the living stuff of the world. </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5384c9f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="5384c9f4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/letters-to-forget-kelly-caldwell-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="arrow_long" data-name="arrow long" width="38.92" height="14" viewBox="0 0 38.92 14"><path id="Path" 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tag-dec24-upload tag-poetry-gifts-2024 genres-fiction genres-poetry" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <div class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71080911 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="71080911" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a8224b" data-id="6a8224b" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-6f36e0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="6f36e0d" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-3a902e3 elementor-widget 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src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28120319/scatteredsnowstothenorth.jpg" class=" book_loop_thumb-img attachment-large size-large book-cover-border" alt="" loading="lazy"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f07ef0c" data-id="f07ef0c" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated">  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-35c4ca3f elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="35c4ca3f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-a6fb22d elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Poetry</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-e25d5eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="e25d5eb" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-33114ab2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="33114ab2" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h1 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/scattered-snows-to-the-north-carl-phillips-book-review/">Scattered Snows, to the North</a></h1> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-3ced357 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="3ced357" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">The poems of Carl Phillips’ <b>Scattered Snows, to the North</b> echo one another, alighting on some philosophical truth and then returning, humbled, to the material world.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5960b0fb trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet 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class="elementor-element elementor-element-b44b3da elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="b44b3da" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-3552549 elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Historical Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Literary Fiction</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Literary Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Historical Fiction</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/time-of-the-child-niall-williams-book-review/">Time of the Child</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/arlene-mckanic/">Arlene McKanic</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=arlene-mckanic" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Arlene McKanic</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>This reviewer has to wonder why an author as brilliant as Niall Williams, whose latest book is the resplendent, suspenseful <strong>Time of the Child</strong>, isn’t at the top of every reader’s mind. Few contemporary novelists create worlds and characters so amazingly alive and specific. Williams knows every nook and cranny of his Irish town Faha, from its weather, which is so damp that nothing ever dries out completely, to its farms and pubs and how it’s slowly losing ground to the estuary. His characters, even those we see only briefly, are unforgettable. Though the town is full of people, you’ll never mix up one with another. Even Faha’s animal citizens are memorable: Consider Harry, a dog who likes to nap in the middle of the street, making cars drive around him.</p> <p><strong>Time of the Child</strong> is a sequel to Williams’ other masterpiece, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/24615-niall-williams-this-happiness-fiction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>This Is Happiness</em></a>, and is set around Christmas in 1962. Noel Crowe, the protagonist of that book, has moved to America, and our focus is now on the town doctor, Jack Troy, and his daughter Ronnie, who lives with him. In Faha, the doctor is a revered, stoic and necessary presence. He might as well be a granite plinth with a mustache. But within this pillar of rectitude, so many passions roil.</p> <p>For Jack, like Faha itself, is a dour-seeming being who is full of love. He loves his patients in his brisk and discerning way. He pines for a lost romance, even as he pushes 70. And he loves his daughters, especially Ronnie, whose unmarried state he feels responsible for. When a local boy finds a baby in a churchyard and brings her to the doctor for care, the floodgates in Jack burst. Both he and Ronnie fall in love with the child, and as the unwed Ronnie can’t adopt her, he hatches a scheme so harebrained that it warms your heart even as you think, “Are you serious?” This is where the novel’s suspense comes in, as well as Williams’ genius for making you laugh out loud while he breaks your heart. Anyone who cherishes great writing should want more and more from Williams.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Niall Williams demonstrates his genius for making you laugh out loud while breaking your heart at the same time in <b>Time of the Child</b>, his follow-up to This Is Happiness.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/time-of-the-child-niall-williams-book-review/"> <span 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data-id="5035f5b" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31a1b74 loop-data" data-id="31a1b74" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b44b3da elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="b44b3da" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-3552549 elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Historical Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Literary Fiction</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Literary Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Historical Fiction</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/the-bishops-villa-sacha-naspini-book-review/">The Bishop’s Villa</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/thane-tierney/">Thane Tierney</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=thane-tierney" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Thane Tierney</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>It might seem simple, sitting on the couch with Netflix on and your belly full, to envision the heroics you’d accomplish if war broke out in your homeland: You’d join the armed forces, or whatever constituted the resistance. You’d break the chains of your oppressors, just like Star Wars, or go rogue, living off your wits and aiding the forces of good, just like Mad Max. Of course you would. <em>Of course you would</em>. </p> <p>But life isn’t a Hollywood movie, and as the real stories of World War II are lost to living memory, it takes someone with a sharp eye and an emotionally perceptive heart to bring the nuance of enduring an occupation into focus. Italian author Sacha Naspini has done so triumphantly in his second novel to be translated into English, <strong>The Bishop’s Villa</strong>. Naspini is from Grosseto, a town in southern Tuscany that holds a dubious distinction: It was Europe’s only Catholic diocese to have been rented out by its bishop as a prison camp during the Holocaust. For eight months toward the end of the war in the European theater, the Roccatederighi seminary housed about 100 Jews, many of whom were sent on to Auschwitz. </p> <p><strong>The Bishop’s Villa</strong>’s fictional protagonist, who stands in for everyman, is a cobbler in Grosseto named René. It’s not his war; he’s just trying to keep his head down and make it through, like most of the townsfolk. But when his friend (and unrequited love) Anna flees to join the resistance, his relationship with her lands him in hot water with the local collaborators, and he finds himself an unwilling “guest” at the bishop’s villa. Though he’s beaten and interrogated, René holds out hope. “What,” he reflects, “can you do to a man who looks at you calmly when you threaten him with death? You can chew his bones clean, but you can’t touch his soul, which means you will never win.”</p> <p>René’s gut-wrenching story of survival caroms between moments of unexpected kindness and unfathomable cruelty as the final days of the war play out. Naspini is to be commended for helping us to recall a story that played out thousands of times across a continent, a scenario that we dare not forget lest it be repeated. </p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Sacha Naspini’s <b>The Bishop’s Villa</b> is a gut-wrenching story of survival set in Grosseto, a Catholic diocese in Tuscany which was rented out by its bishop as a prison camp during the Holocaust.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" 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class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Literary Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/speculative-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Speculative Fiction</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/speculative-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Speculative Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Literary Fiction</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls-haruki-murakami-book-review/">The City and Its Uncertain Walls</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/matthew-jackson/">Matthew Jackson</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=matthew-jackson" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Matthew Jackson</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Every new Haruki Murakami book is an event, but <strong>The City and Its Uncertain Walls</strong> has a special importance for longtime readers of the Japanese master. This weighty tome is not just his first novel in six years, but also a return to one of his earliest works: 1985’s <em>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World</em>. In the book’s afterword, Murakami relates how he reworked the ideas of that early book, reflecting on 40 years of writing life in the process. Without giving too much of this glorious novel away, what emerges from those four decades of thought is a striking, moving meditation on the price of isolation, the nourishment of stories and how the most important things in our lives reach us in slow, unexpected ways. </p> <p>The unnamed narrator of<strong> The City and Its Uncertain Walls</strong> is a man caught between reality and an alternate world dominated by a strange Town surrounded by an impenetrable wall. When we meet this narrator, he’s reminiscing about both a teenage romance with an odd ending and the Town itself, which he once visited to work in a dark library as a Dream Reader. With the love story from his youth and his time in the Town dominating his mind, he sets out to change his life and find fulfillment working in a new, more conventional library. </p> <p>Many things about Murakami’s work are striking, but what stands out most when you dive into this book is his unmatched narrative patience. He does not rely on breakneck pacing to drive you from page to page. Instead, he moves the story forward steadily, with a confidence and wit that keeps you longing to read on. In his trademark assured, graceful prose, Murakami has produced a work of tremendous ambition that on a sentence-by-sentence level feels like sitting down with a friend to hear them tell a very strange story. It’s another masterwork from one of our finest living novelists, and a must-read for Murakami devotees.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Haruki Murakami’s latest masterwork, <b>The City and Its Uncertain Walls</b>, is a moving meditation on the price of isolation, the nourishment of stories and how the most important things in our lives reach us in slow, unexpected ways.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" 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elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Poetry</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/your-dazzling-death-cass-donish-book-review/">Your Dazzling Death</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/laura-sackton/">Laura Sackton</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=laura-sackton" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Laura Sackton</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>In their third collection, <strong>Your Dazzling Death</strong>, Cass Donish (<em>The Year of the Femme</em>) grieves their partner, the poet Kelly Caldwell, and celebrates their love and life together—the good and the bad. These poems are raw and reaching, often addressed directly to Caldwell. They pulse with ongoing loss, as memory by memory, day by day, Donish is confronted with the fact of their beloved’s death, and their continuing love for her. </p> <p>Several poems begin with the line, “In my next life,” acknowledging how grief reforges the world of those left behind. Donish seems to reach for that remade world not only by looking back into the painful, tender memories of a shared queer life, but also by insisting on Caldwell’s continued relevance and presence. “I don’t know // if it’s then or now / anymore. If you’re here / or already gone” they write in “Agate Beach, Lopez Island.”</p> <p>The centerpiece of the collection, “Kelly in Violet” is a palimpsest of <em>The History of Violets </em>by Uruguayan poet Marosa di Giorgio; some traces of the source text remain in gray. This piece is rich in imagery, overflowing with the daily challenge of living, particularly with grief and mental illness. The urgency and directness of loss haunts even the most beautiful lines: “The butterflies want you back, the hawks want you back, the moon is pining.”</p> <p>Donish rejects simple notions of time and loss, and instead writes into queer time and grief time, heavy with ghosts and rich with possibility. “Yet isn’t it a mistake / to say I know our story now? Isn’t that the thing? // I don’t believe in dying / fixing—stilling—anything.” This is an openhearted and devastating collection—proof that love stories do not end, but rather go on changing, even through death.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Cass Donish’s <b>Your Dazzling Death</b> is an openhearted and devastating collection—proof that love stories do not end, but rather go on changing, even through death.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link 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#5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/scattered-snows-to-the-north-carl-phillips-book-review/">Scattered Snows, to the North</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/laura-sackton/">Laura Sackton</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=laura-sackton" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Laura Sackton</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>In his 17th book of poetry, <strong>Scattered Snows, to the North</strong>, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips gazes both inward and outward. His work carries a signature heft, a musicality and syntax that seems to rewrite itself with each read. Phillips tangles his sentences like few other poets working today, and often, rather than untangling them, he lets the tangles linger, clause-heavy and potent, wordy but exacting. The knots he makes with lines, stanzas, images and always-startling juxtaposition are graceful but not easy. One of the distinct pleasures of reading his work is getting lost in the questions it poses, and <strong>Scattered Snows, to the North</strong> is full of questions.</p> <p>The speaker of “Searchlights” embodies the contradictions at the heart of this work: “I can see the words, though I can’t / hear them, finding shape first, then meaning, the way smoke does, / Don’t, which is not a question; then just the smell of the rain, which is.” How does the memory of a relationship, or a place, or a particular moment reshape it? Can the present change the past? Why do we fixate on memory, rework the contours of a life over and over again in the mind? What changes as we age, and how do we reckon with what doesn’t? These questions hum through the poems, surfacing and retreating. Always, Phillips engages with them at a slant: “Why not call it love— // each gesture—if it does love’s work? I pulled him / closer. I kissed his mouth, its anger, its blue confusion.”</p> <p>Phillips beautifully articulates the thorny conflict between reflecting on and being present in: reflecting on time passing while being present in your body; reflecting on the cyclical sameness of human history while being present in the specific ecstasy of a season, a love, a quarrel, the beach at night. The settings of these poems often feel mythological—fields and forests—but they also feel distinctly current. Nature is everywhere, and always changing; there are animals in various stages of life, the turbulent sea, weather, light.</p> <p>The titular poem, “Scattered Snows, to the North,” is a poignant meditation on loss both intimate and universal. In considering the people who lived during the failing years of the Roman Empire, the speaker muses: “If it was night, they lit / fires, presumably. Tears / were tears.” In “Stop Shaking,” Phillips asks, “What if memory’s just the dead, flourishing differently from how they flourished alive?” Over and over the poems echo one another, alighting on some philosophical truth and then returning, humbled, to the material world.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">The poems of Carl Phillips’ <b>Scattered Snows, to the North</b> echo one another, alighting on some philosophical truth and then returning, humbled, to the material world.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div 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href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/scattered-snows-to-the-north-carl-phillips-book-review/ "><img loading="lazy" width="302" height="460" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28120319/scatteredsnowstothenorth.jpg" class=" book_loop_thumb-img attachment-large size-large book-cover-border" alt="" loading="lazy"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-209715" class="elementor-post elementor-grid-item ecs-post-loop post-209715 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-dec24-upload tag-poetry-gifts-2024 genres-fiction genres-poetry"> <div data-elementor-type="loop" data-elementor-id="201630" class="elementor elementor-201630 elementor-location-archive post-209715 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-dec24-upload tag-poetry-gifts-2024 genres-fiction genres-poetry" 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href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/invention-of-the-darling-li-young-lee-book-review/">The Invention of the Darling</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/kelly-ann-graffbookpage-contributor-com/">Kelly Ann Graff</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=kelly-ann-graff" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Kelly Ann Graff</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Dedicated to those “Who Wrestle With God,” <strong>The Invention of the Darling</strong> by Li-Young Lee utilizes familiar language and religious motifs to depict a sprawling yet personal approach to the sacred. Lee, the son of a political exile turned Presbyterian minister, previously penned six celebrated poetry collections, many of which ruminate on memories of family and love with religious undercurrents. In <strong>The Invention of the Darling</strong>, Lee’s retrospective writing goes further, seemingly recollecting the inception of life itself.</p> <p>Many poems in this collection position parents as both sign and symbol of the creator. The epic poem “The Herald’s Wand” explores various manifestations of this almighty deity, alluding to the serpents of Norse, Greek and Christian mythologies. Through the voice of a speaker that seems to hover omnisciently, Lee establishes, “Before / the serpent was a serpent / she was my mother” and “Before the serpent was a serpent / he was my father.” Over the course of the poem, these mutable metaphors continue to link parents to God. At its conclusive section, aptly labeled “Axis Mundi,” readers are left with the bones of the Jörmungandr-like serpent at the base of an Yggdrasil-like tree. In Lee’s world, the death of a parent is the death of a god, an apocalypse. The speaker describes the hope, the terror and the devastation of three beings who witnessed the death of the parent-god-serpent before reaching out to the reader with the final lines: “Of those three, which one were you? / Whether or not you remember, you were there.” This is what Lee does so masterfully: balance the grandest revelations of the universe with the gentle touch of personal memory.</p> <p>While the collection explores love as expressed through grief, it also champions love expressed through awe, intimacy and worship. Countering the image of the earthbound serpent, Lee celebrates the glory of the hummingbird in the ecstatic “O, Hummingbird, Don’t Go,” and the sensual “Met and Unmet.” The ultimate image of the collection is one of hope. At the end of the titular “The Invention of the Darling,” the speaker realizes that “I thought I’d lost my mother. / It was I who was lost. / Here she is, a pure vibration / across two bridges.” This resonating image finds harmony between the many dialectics presented throughout the work: snake and bird, child and parent, ground and sky, earth and heaven, living and dead, the personal and the prophetic.</p> <p><strong>The Invention of the Darling</strong> relishes in the language and structures of religion, sanctifying parent-child relationships to depict the scale of the grief of parental loss.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">In his seventh collection, <b>The Invention of the Darling</b>, poet Li-Young Lee balances the grandest revelations of 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class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/forest-of-noise-mosab-abu-toha-book-review/">Forest of Noise</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/destiny-o-birdsong/">Destiny O. Birdsong</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=destiny-o-birdsong" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Destiny O. Birdsong</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Fresh on the heels of his debut collection, <em>Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza</em> (2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, the Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha’s <strong>Forest of Noise</strong> is a dispatch from Gaza and a call for peace while there is still time to save his people. Abu Toha’s poems describe life in Gaza before and after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and the result is a harrowing but powerful account of surviving a genocide.</p> <p><strong>Forest of Noise</strong> begins with a tribute to several childhoods: those of Gazan children currently living under constant bombardment, and of Abu Toha himself, who recalls seeing a helicopter shooting a rocket into a building at 7 years old. The rest of the collection performs a similar act, looking back while recounting the atrocities of the present and, at times, offering glimpses of an unknown and potentially catastrophic future. In “A Request,” written in response to a poem by the late Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December 2023, Abu Toha hopes for a “clean death,” one where he is not buried under rubble or disfigured by shrapnel, and where the clothes in his closet remain intact for his burial. Other “after” poems, like “After Allen Ginsburg” and “Who Has Seen the Wind [after Bob Kaufman]” rewrite the chaos of other turbulent historical moments in an attempt to make sense of the present. And yet, there are pockets of stillness and quiet reflection. In “Palestinian Village,” the speaker reclines in a peaceful town without conflict. The scene is beautiful, but the idyll is fleeting. By the collection’s final poem, “This is Not a Poem,” imagery collapses in a litany of dismembered limbs. “This is a grave,” writes Abu Toha, “not / beneath the soil of Homeland, / but above a flat, light white / rag of paper.” <strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Forest of Noise</strong> is a difficult but necessary read. As good poetry often does, these poems will keep you up at night and will require you to ask some of the most difficult questions of our time: What kind of world are we living in? What kind of world are we leaving to the children?</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">As good poetry often does, <b>Forest of Noise</b> will require you to ask some of the most difficult questions of our time: What kind of world are we living in? What kind of world are we leaving to the children?</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/forest-of-noise-mosab-abu-toha-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="arrow_long" data-name="arrow long" width="38.92" height="14" viewBox="0 0 38.92 14"><path id="Path" 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starred-rev-icon-loop-209709 star-of-article elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-absolute elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-shape-circle elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon" data-id="75ab309" data-element_type="widget" data-settings="{"_position":"absolute"}" data-widget_type="icon.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="elementor-icon-wrapper"><div class="elementor-icon"> <i aria-hidden="true" class="fas fa-star"></i></div></div></div></div> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/forest-of-noise-mosab-abu-toha-book-review/ "><img loading="lazy" width="302" height="460" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28120554/forestofnoise.jpg" class=" book_loop_thumb-img attachment-large size-large book-cover-border" alt="" loading="lazy"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-209711" class="elementor-post elementor-grid-item ecs-post-loop post-209711 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-dec24-upload tag-poetry-gifts-2024 genres-fiction genres-poetry"> <div data-elementor-type="loop" data-elementor-id="201630" class="elementor elementor-201630 elementor-location-archive post-209711 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-dec24-upload tag-poetry-gifts-2024 genres-fiction genres-poetry" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <div class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5035f5b elementor-section-content-middle elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="5035f5b" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31a1b74 loop-data" data-id="31a1b74" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b44b3da elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="b44b3da" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-3552549 elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Poetry</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/poetry/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Poetry</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/letters-to-forget-kelly-caldwell-book-review/">Letters to Forget</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/laura-sackton/">Laura Sackton</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=laura-sackton" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Laura Sackton</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Published after poet Kelly Caldwell’s death in 2020, <strong>Letters to Forget</strong> is assured, electric and devastating. The collection comprises three sections: the first and third contain short poems written in one of two forms, either prose poems titled “[ dear c. ]” and addressed to the poet Cass Donish, Caldwell’s partner, or poems composed entirely of end-stopped lines, with titles like “[ house of rope ]” and “[ house of bare life ].” The middle section contains three long poems that engage with the story of Job through a lens of queerness, transness and mental illness. </p> <p>Within these constraints, Caldwell’s imagery and imagination soar. The epistolary “[ dear c. ]” poems were written during time Caldwell spent in a residential hospital receiving treatment for suicidal depression. There is deep sorrow in these poems, and a sense of restlessness—as if the lines are trying to break out of the page. Caldwell leaps from image to image, her mind and body constantly in motion. “Here are some awkward questions, and you can say what you’re thinking. How many bruises can I put on the scale before it tilts? How much does a marriage bed weigh? How to place this body on an actual body?” she writes in one. In another: “I wish starlings carpeted the floor of this rainy April morning instead of a beige spread.” </p> <p>There is a delicate playfulness in <strong>Letters to Forget</strong>, despite the severity of the subject matter. Caldwell writes with intellectual curiosity and emotional vulnerability, pondering the heaviness of memory, the power of claiming her own self and body, the balm of loving and being loved, and the often dark reality of living with bipolar disorder. Her inventive use of end-stops is nothing short of stunning; she divides sentences into new worlds with periods, creating a thudding, propulsive intensity that is hard to look away from.</p> <p>“What comfort does, we mimic, and we hope for marvelous clouds, and burned fog, and lovers’ spit,” Caldwell writes. It is heartbreaking that this debut will not be followed by other books, but the words that Caldwell has left us are not mimicry. As much as any poetry can be, they are the living stuff of the world.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">The poems in Kelly Caldwell’s debut collection, <b>Letters to Forget</b>, have a thudding, propulsive intensity that is hard to look away from. As much as any poetry can be, they are the living stuff of the world.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/letters-to-forget-kelly-caldwell-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="arrow_long" data-name="arrow long" width="38.92" height="14" viewBox="0 0 38.92 14"><path id="Path" d="M-38.231,6.273H-2.367l-5.1-5.1a.689.689,0,0,1,0-.974A.689.689,0,0,1-6.49.2l6.2,6.2A.687.687,0,0,1,0,6.962s0,.007,0,.01,0,.015,0,.022a.684.684,0,0,1-.037.193.666.666,0,0,1-.05.11.691.691,0,0,1-.058.088.646.646,0,0,1-.053.08L-6.536,13.8a.687.687,0,0,1-.487.2.687.687,0,0,1-.487-.2.689.689,0,0,1,0-.974L-2.336,7.65H-38.231a.689.689,0,0,1-.689-.689A.689.689,0,0,1-38.231,6.273Z" transform="translate(38.92 0)"></path></svg> </span> </span> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eab1106 loop-img" data-id="eab1106" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5a2e23f elementor-view-stacked starred-rev-icon-loop-209711 star-of-article elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-absolute elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-shape-circle elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon" data-id="5a2e23f" data-element_type="widget" data-settings="{"_position":"absolute"}" data-widget_type="icon.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-icon-wrapper"> <div class="elementor-icon"> <i aria-hidden="true" class="fas fa-star"></i> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-51e7e28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="51e7e28" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <style type="text/css"> .starred-rev-icon-loop-209711{ display: none; 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Birdsong</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=destiny-o-birdsong" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Destiny O. Birdsong</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Danez Smith’s fourth book of poetry, <strong>Bluff</strong>, is a robust and inventive read, with poems ranging from essayistic to wordless. (One piece, “METRO” is a QR code that takes readers online to over two dozen pages that didn’t make it into the printed collection.) <strong>Bluff</strong> begins with a personal query: Has the poet betrayed their community by making art about Black pain? This is a topic the speaker returns to again and again in early pieces, where they critique both white audiences’ appetites for anti-Black violence and the rewards that come to those who can satisfy those cravings. At the same time, there are poems about the persistent beauty of Black communities, even in the face of generational violence and the unfulfilled promise of progress: Neither exoduses from the Jim Crow South nor the first Black president have improved the lives of most Black Americans.</p> <p>In “Minneapolis, St. Paul,” and “My Beautiful End of the World,” two mini-essays that cordon off the center of the book, Smith delves into the problems plaguing America’s heartland, ones that are in fact happening all over the country. “Minneapolis, Saint Paul” describes the protests following George Floyd’s murder in diaristic fashion, while “My Beautiful End of the World” chronicles how gentrification is killing the land and restricting access to what remains of its natural beauty. Later poems make clear that the dream of peace and the possibility of a utopia can exist, if in no other place, then in the poetry, right alongside an unabashed reckoning with poverty and racism. <strong>Bluff</strong> asks, “What shall we do with this land we were never meant to own?” and “How shall we live on it together in the little time we have left?” The answer may lie in the final lines of the book, where the speaker awakens next to a lover and is reminded of the power of the love they make together.</p> <p><strong>Bluff</strong> is a book that indicts and inquires: It interrogates the poet’s past work and revises it, while resisting the powers that threaten to sell us out and sell us short. In the end, it offers joy and hope, but not without the sober warning that we are running out of bluffs, out of delusions, out of land and perhaps out of time to right our wrongs.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><b>Bluff</b> is a book that indicts and inquires, offering joy and hope, but not without the sober warning that we are running out of bluffs, out of delusions, out of land and perhaps out of time to right our wrongs.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/bluff-danez-smith-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="arrow_long" data-name="arrow long" width="38.92" height="14" viewBox="0 0 38.92 14"><path id="Path" d="M-38.231,6.273H-2.367l-5.1-5.1a.689.689,0,0,1,0-.974A.689.689,0,0,1-6.49.2l6.2,6.2A.687.687,0,0,1,0,6.962s0,.007,0,.01,0,.015,0,.022a.684.684,0,0,1-.037.193.666.666,0,0,1-.05.11.691.691,0,0,1-.058.088.646.646,0,0,1-.053.08L-6.536,13.8a.687.687,0,0,1-.487.2.687.687,0,0,1-.487-.2.689.689,0,0,1,0-.974L-2.336,7.65H-38.231a.689.689,0,0,1-.689-.689A.689.689,0,0,1-38.231,6.273Z" transform="translate(38.92 0)"></path></svg> </span> </span> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eab1106 loop-img" data-id="eab1106" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5a2e23f elementor-view-stacked starred-rev-icon-loop-209707 star-of-article elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-absolute elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-shape-circle elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon" data-id="5a2e23f" data-element_type="widget" data-settings="{"_position":"absolute"}" data-widget_type="icon.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-icon-wrapper"> <div class="elementor-icon"> <i aria-hidden="true" class="fas fa-star"></i> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-51e7e28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="51e7e28" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <style type="text/css"> .starred-rev-icon-loop-209707{ display: none; } </style>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-3a902e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image" data-id="3a902e3" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-featured-image.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container article-book-star"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-75ab309 elementor-view-stacked starred-rev-icon-loop-209707 star-of-article elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-absolute elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-shape-circle elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon" data-id="75ab309" data-element_type="widget" data-settings="{"_position":"absolute"}" data-widget_type="icon.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="elementor-icon-wrapper"><div class="elementor-icon"> <i aria-hidden="true" class="fas fa-star"></i></div></div></div></div> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/bluff-danez-smith-book-review/ "><img loading="lazy" width="302" height="460" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28120639/bluff.jpg" class=" book_loop_thumb-img attachment-large size-large book-cover-border" alt="" loading="lazy"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-209062" class="elementor-post elementor-grid-item ecs-post-loop post-209062 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-behind-the-book genres-fiction genres-historical-fiction"> <div data-elementor-type="loop" data-elementor-id="201630" class="elementor elementor-201630 elementor-location-archive post-209062 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-behind-the-book genres-fiction genres-historical-fiction" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <div class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5035f5b elementor-section-content-middle elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="5035f5b" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31a1b74 loop-data" data-id="31a1b74" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b44b3da elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="b44b3da" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-3552549 elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Historical Fiction</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Historical Fiction</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/behind-the-book/daniel-m-lavery-essay/">A lost New York City tradition</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Behind the Book by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/daniel-laverybookpage-contributor-com/">Daniel M. Lavery</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Like most people, I hate moving house. Wherever I’m living at any given moment, I want to die there, no matter how cramped the apartment or inconvenient the neighborhood. I never want to have to pack up my things, or unpack my things, or measure the width of a door frame to see if the couch is going to fit through it.</p> <p>“Of course the couch is going to fit through it,” I say, every time. “The very fact that the couch is here now is evidence that the couch fits through the door.” Nevertheless, on every moving day it transpires that I was somehow wrong, that the couch must have been transported through the door and into the living room by acts of contortion or wizardcraft, or it has gained weight in the interim, because it certainly doesn’t fit through the door <em>now</em>.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“Wherever I’m living at any given moment, I want to die there.”</p> </blockquote> <p>“Leave it, then,” is my only moving strategy. “I don’t want it now.” No matter how attached I might have formerly been to an object, be it my own bed, a box of books, an antique, or half my wardrobe, if it causes me even a minute’s extra work or mental calculation on moving day, all I want to do is get rid of it. Once I am moved into my new place, of course, the old spirits of avarice and acquisitiveness return to me in greater strength. I begin to meditate again on the pleasures of the getting of things. But ownership in all its forms is hateful to me on moving day; there is no possession I treasure more highly than <em>lightness</em>.</p> <p>I didn’t realize just how good I had it. During my research for <strong>Women’s Hotel</strong> at the New York Public Library, I came across some old newspaper columns about the local tradition of Moving Day. For hundreds of years, well into the middle of the 20th century, all New York City leases expired at the same time on May 1st, which meant that everybody moving house in a given year did so not only on the same day, but at the same hour, as this column, <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/04/30/82408009.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“May Day,” from the April 30th 1873 <em>New York Times</em></a> describes:</p> <p class="ql-indent-1">“When New Yorkers celebrate the day, as they do invariably, it is, if not in sack-cloth and ashes, amid dust and piles of carpets and confused heaps of furniture. . . . The annual spectacle of a whole drove of Gothamites struggling amid pots and pans, and pictures, and rolls of carpet, to break away from the ties of place and friendship just as they are warming in their old nest, to find a new and cold home and cultivate fresh friendships, is not the kind of picture to gaze on with poetic rapture.”</p> <p>The heyday of the women’s residential hotel was very short-lived; it really only existed in a handful of major cities for a relatively small portion of the population. I knew I was trying to capture a brief phenomenon that never much resembled how most people lived most of the time. Part of the pleasure of writing historical fiction, for me, has to do with attempting to re-create the experience of an extinguished tradition, to capture a kind of urgency that no longer exists. <strong>Women’s Hotel</strong> takes place over a period of several years in the early-to-mid 1960s, and I knew I wanted to open the action with a small-scale, vestigial remnant of Moving Day at the Biedermeier Hotel.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“I like to start a book by considering what, and when, everybody eats.”</p> </blockquote> <p>There’s a temporal lag at the Biedermeier, although not from any active attachment to the past. It’s a few years out of step, more by default than by accident, although there’s plenty of the accidental there too. The height of popularity for women’s hotels came during the 1920s and ’30s; the Biedermeier is the sort of place women are more likely to land in without meaning to than to aim for directly. Most of the hotel residents have no plans for the future, only anxieties, and half of them aren’t even able to join in with the present. They are formally unattached people; everyone who lives at the Biedermeier, lives alone.</p> <p>Few of them have ever been married, but none of them is married at the time of their residence. Even fewer of them have children, but those who do either cannot or will not live with them. They are not allowed to cook in their rooms (although at least one of them secretly owns a hot plate for drinking midnight cups of cocoa in bed), and the hotel has recently stopped providing breakfast. I like to start a book by considering what, and when, everybody eats, and so <strong>Women’s Hotel</strong> begins with “It was the end of the continental breakfast, and therefore the beginning of the end of everything else.”</p> <p>It’s always the same way with me, whenever I have to move. Come to think of it, it’s the same way with me before I’ve had breakfast. I can never see past it and into the afternoon.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/womens-hotel-daniel-m-lavery-book-review/">Read our starred review of <em>Women’s Hotel</em>.</a></p> </blockquote> <p class="has-small-font-size">Daniel M. Lavery author photo by Eustache Boch.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Daniel M. Lavery reveals the research that went into his delightful slice-of-life historical novel, <b>Women’s Hotel</b>, and discusses the universally torturous experience of moving house.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/behind-the-book/daniel-m-lavery-essay/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="arrow_long" data-name="arrow long" width="38.92" height="14" viewBox="0 0 38.92 14"><path id="Path" 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href="https://www.bookpage.com/behind-the-book/daniel-m-lavery-essay/"><img src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/26155108/MUG_Daniel-M.-Lavery-credit-Eustache-Boch.jpg" class="book_loop_thumb-img attachment-large size-large book-cover-border" alt="" loading="lazy"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-209052" class="elementor-post elementor-grid-item ecs-post-loop post-209052 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-interviews tag-homeslide genres-fiction genres-literary-fiction"> <div data-elementor-type="loop" data-elementor-id="201630" class="elementor elementor-201630 elementor-location-archive post-209052 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-interviews tag-homeslide genres-fiction genres-literary-fiction" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <div class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5035f5b elementor-section-content-middle elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="5035f5b" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31a1b74 loop-data" data-id="31a1b74" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b44b3da elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="b44b3da" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-3552549 elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Fiction</a>, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Literary Fiction</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-a116bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="a116bea" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Literary Fiction</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/interviews/anna-montague-interview-how-does-that-make-you-feel-magda-eklund/">Best friends for life, and after</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Interview by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/alice-cary/">Alice Cary</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>When one of the two central characters in your debut novel is dead, there are unintended consequences, as Anna Montague reveals at the start of our conversation about <strong>How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?</strong> In the book, Magda, a psychiatrist who is turning 70, takes a lengthy, life-changing road trip with the cremated remains of her best friend, Sara, buckled into the passenger seat beside her.</p> <p>“My apartment is just covered in urns,” Montague says, speaking from the Brooklyn apartment into which she has just moved. “I’m actually really looking forward to exploring other decor options once the book is out. I have maybe 15 in my entryway.”</p> <p>In fact, Montague’s late grandfather, who was the manuscript’s first reader, suggested she call her book <em>The Urn.</em> People have already been sending them to her, and no doubt she’ll be getting more with the publication of her highly anticipated novel. What’s more, one of these gifted vessels may actually contain remains. “It sounds distinctly like there are some ashes in it,” Montague says, laughing, “but it seems to be locked. I don’t know who sent it, so I’m in a bit of a holding pattern with that one.”</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“I remember wondering what it would be like to try and start over . . . when you’re in your 70s, and you think you have everything sorted out.”</p> </blockquote> <p>While she was working on the book, Montague lost not only her 100-year-old grandfather, but two other dear people: her 94-year-old grandmother and a woman named Dorothy (Dot), one of her father’s elderly neighbors whom she had befriended. One day, as Montague dog-sat for Dot’s husband, who was traveling, she suddenly realized that Dot’s ashes were in an urn in the room where she was writing. She notes that “many of the impulses that Magda has” towards her friend’s urn in the book—like talking to it—“are very true to real life. At least for me. I found that the desire to connect and pay homage to that person still very much existed in ways that I didn’t expect.”</p> <p>Montague’s initial inspiration for the story came when her therapist dropped her. “It’s not as sad as it sounds,” she interjects, explaining that during the pandemic, her therapist—whom she guesses was in her 70s—decided to downsize her practice to only patients she was seeing regularly. “When I asked her what she was planning to do with all of that newfound free time,” she continues, “there was a pause. And she said, ‘I don’t know, maybe I’ll travel.’ I remember wondering what it would be like to try and start over . . . when you’re in your 70s, and you think you have everything sorted out.”</p> <p>Thinking about her therapist led Montague to the character of Magda, and Sara’s character appeared soon after. “I thought I was drafting a short story,” Montague recalls. “And within a couple of pages, Sara was already there. I thought, ‘Okay, this is perhaps not a short story, and this is definitely about the relationship, the friendship between these two women.’”</p> <p>Readers who plunge into this heartfelt, well-told saga may be surprised to discover that Montague is only 31. “It is very easy for me to write from the vantage point of a senior citizen,” she admits with a laugh. “Perhaps too easy.” She describes her friendship with an 80-year-old named Lena, noting, “if you just had a profile of the two of us, you would never know that I was the younger one. [Lena] likes dancing to house music and afternoon boat cruises, and I am often in bed with a cup of tea at an hour that I won’t disclose. But I’ve spent a lot of my life around significantly older people, many of whom were mining the difficult space of recognizing that their lives were more than likely half over, sometimes more than three-quarters over.” The conversations Magda has with herself about what it means to enter her 70s are drawn from ones Montague has had “with many of the older folks in my life.”</p> <p>“Most women I know become happier and more fulfilled as they get older,” she adds, “and I wanted Magda to very slowly come to terms with that.”</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p> “That’s the absurdity of a road trip, right? You can have it all mapped out perfectly, but you cannot anticipate all of the events that will happen.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Montague got to know Lena through SAGE, a national organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ elders and fosters intergenerational connections among LGBTQ+ people. Hearing about Lena’s experiences living in New York informed Montague’s writing, including her decision to set <strong>How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?</strong> in 2011, just before New York state’s Marriage Equality Act.</p> <p>“One of the things I was thinking about quite a bit while writing was the inherent queerness of female friendship,” she explains. “The intimacies that are allowed both privately and publicly to female friends that aren’t allowed to men. As an adult, for example, I’ll often have a friend stay over, and my male friends would never have a sleepover. . . . Women are encouraged to support each other in ways both emotional and physical [that] are so different from the ways that men are socialized.” She suggests that the intimacy of female friendships can be confusing for male partners, even a source of envy, “because it’s a degree of closeness that they have not been allowed. And maybe it’s even a degree of closeness . . . they have not been able to achieve with their partners, you know, because those needs are being met elsewhere.”</p> <p>Montague dedicates her book to her friend Isabel, whom she calls “the platonic great love of my life.” They met at summer camp and have been “a constant” in each other’s lives since they were 13. The two talk every day, and as Isabel is a poet, they often confer about writing projects.</p> <p>Once Montague decided that Magda would take a road trip, she says, “I had a pretty good sense of where she would go, but I didn’t have as much of a sense of what would happen to her emotional or intellectual self along the way. That’s the absurdity of a road trip, right? You can have it all mapped out perfectly, but you cannot anticipate all of the events that will happen.” She adds, “The first draft had many more flat tires and a number of more absurd characters who didn’t make it through to the final manuscript.”</p> <p>Montague also turned to psychology textbooks for reference. They were useful for chronicling Magda’s psychiatric practice as well as Magda’s own inner struggles, which are much harder for Magda to face than her patients’ quandaries. Montague confesses, “There were many moments when I just wished I could grab Magda by the shoulders and shake her. And then I had to remember that I was the one creating this person and all of her problems—which meant I was also responsible for solving them.” Never fear, readers. The solutions—and the long and winding roads that Magda takes to reach them—are one of the many delights of this book.</p> <p>The author still feels connected to Magda and Sara, and anticipates that these characters may reappear in her writing. However, she is now “very much in the weeds with the next one”—something completely different. Montague is an extremely busy literary professional: She also works as an editor for Dey Street Books, focusing on narrative nonfiction, science and wellness books. (She recently worked on NPR music critic Ann Powers’ “kaleidoscopic” biography of Joni Mitchell, <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/traveling-ann-powers-book-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Traveling</em></a>.) Montague says that it helps that she suffers from insomnia, which gives her time at night for her own writing. Writing fiction while editing nonfiction dovetails nicely for her. “It feels like there’s just enough distance between the two, but there’s enough overlap that I can learn and apply those learnings to the other,” she explains.</p> <p>Montague has always filled her life with books, and juggling between different ones is nothing new. As a preschooler in Irvington, New York, she kept books in multiple rooms so that one was always at the ready. She kept one in her bedroom, another in the kitchen and yet another in the front hallway so she’d have something to look at while putting on her shoes. She began writing short stories at a young age as well. “I was always particularly captivated by people and their motivations for—everything really,” she says with a laugh. “I think at the heart of it, that’s always a principal focus and fascination of mine.”</p> <p>What about that therapist who dropped her and inspired <strong>How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?</strong> Does she plan to send her a copy?</p> <p>“Yes,” Montague says. “She was very excited to hear about the book, and we’ve exchanged letters here and there. My current therapist is also excited to read it, but I’m a little scared of what they’ll make of it.”</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/how-does-that-make-you-feel-magda-eklund-anna-montague-book-review/">Read our review of <em>How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?</em></a></p> </blockquote> <p class="has-small-font-size">Anna Montague author photo by Hannah Solomon.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Anna Montague’s empathic debut novel, <b>How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?</b>, follows a woman entering her 70s and coming to terms with the loss of a friend through the twists and turns of a summer road trip.</div> </div> </div> <div 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data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"> <div class="genres-tax"><a class="taxo-genres-link isParent" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literary-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Literary Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/historical-fiction/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Historical Fiction</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/coming-of-age/" style="color: #5f7fe2">Coming of Age</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c4d68c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="c4d68c4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/features/4-cant-miss-book-club-picks/">4 can’t-miss book club picks</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-065526c elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="065526c" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Feature by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/julie-hale/">Julie Hale</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8815cb8 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="8815cb8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>In Amanda Peters’ <strong>The Berry Pickers</strong>, Ruthie, a 4-year-old Mi’kmaq child, disappears from a farm in Maine where her migrant family is employed during the summer. Set in 1962, the novel is narrated by Ruthie’s brother, Joe, and by Norma, a girl whose remote, unapproachable parents seem to be harboring secrets. Spanning five tumultuous decades, the novel brings these parallel narratives to a surprising climax. Peters’ sensitive depiction of family members learning to live with loss is unforgettable. Themes of loyalty, memory and guilt will spark lively conversation among readers.</p> <p>Inspired by historical events, Tan Twan Eng’s atmospheric novel <strong>The House of Doors</strong> is about writer W. Somerset Maugham, who, with waning health and a declining reputation, goes to Penang in 1921 in search of material for a new book. He finds what he’s looking for after reconnecting with his friend Robert Hamlyn. Robert’s wife, Lesley, shares information with Maugham about her murky past, including her links to Chinese revolutionaries and a murder—perfect fodder for a novel. Writing with wonderful detail, Eng delivers a smart, suspenseful narrative that sheds fresh light on a fascinating era in history.</p> <p>Rio and Gibraltar, a successful Black couple, leave behind the world of Boston academia to build a new life in Gabriel Bump’s electrifying book <strong>The New Naturals</strong>. With the backing of a rich patron, they start an experimental community founded on tolerance and trust. The community—based in a bunker-like space under a hill—draws a variety of wayward souls, but friction soon arises, and the couple’s dream of an ideal society is threatened. Grief, social justice and the nature of community are a few of the novel’s engaging discussion topics.</p> <p><strong>Demon Copperhead</strong>, Barbara Kingsolver’s genius reenvisioning of Charles Dickens’ <em>David Copperfield</em>, has been hailed as one of the best books of the century. Demon, the narrator of the novel, lives in a trailer in Lee County, Virginia, with his mother, a drug addict. He’s creative and smart, but faces enormous challenges when his mother’s death lands him in foster care. Kingsolver portrays Demon’s difficult coming-of-age with vividness and immediacy. Featuring a sprawling plot and expansive cast of characters, the novel is an epic for our times and a modern book club classic.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9442a2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="9442a2a" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Choose one of these buzzed-about novels for your book club and get set for a great meeting.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4942faa elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4942faa" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/features/4-cant-miss-book-club-picks/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> 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href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/matthew-jackson/">Matthew Jackson</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4ca4491 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="4ca4491" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=matthew-jackson" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Matthew Jackson</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div 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There are more than three dozen of them, some running less than two pages as part of her continued practice of flash fiction, others running to more conventional short fiction lengths, all of them united by common themes of family, femininity and motherhood. </p> <p>Rooted in the Indian diaspora, many of the stories in <strong>Ruined a Little When We Are Born</strong> are centered on rituals of one kind or another, ranging from the mundane to the arcane. In the opening story, “Mother, False,” a girl experiences shocking physical changes upon the death of her mother. In “Shabnam Salamat,” the arrival of her father’s new young bride sparks an awakening in a daughter. In the bewitching “There Are Places That Will Fill You Up,” a girl connects with her long-lost mother in a search for new meaning, with surprising results. And in “Milky-Eyed Orgasm Swallows Me Whole,” a woman has a conversation with the physical manifestation of her sexual climaxes.</p> <p>Through beautifully constructed sentences that read as much like prayers as they do like prose, Zambrano’s stories slither and grow like unpredictable, invasive vines, creeping inside your brain and refusing to leave. It doesn’t seem to matter whether she gives herself 10 pages or just one; this is an author who understands that the job of fiction is to generate empathy and genuine emotional response in the reader, and who knows how to extract those things with poise and confidence. </p> <p>There’s a swagger to this book, a sense of being in gifted hands, and yet there’s also a dramatic vulnerability that comes through, particularly in the stories about growing up, learning what adulthood means or realizing that parents are not superheroes. Whether she’s exploring Indian folklore or introducing an old woman to the strange powers of a dishwasher, Zambrano is always in command, always writing earnestly and vividly. 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