“As a child I’d often heard, ‘Tell the truth and shame the devil.’ When the truth was told, someone had to be shamed – usually the teller of the truth. It was time, I told myself, to stop fearing shame.” “Who will write the history of tears?” Another Booker prediction comes from Australia – TheoryContinue reading “THEORY & PRACTICE – Michelle de Kretser”
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THE BERRY PICKERS – Amanda Peters
“…lost in a memory stirred alive by the moon.” Amanda Peters’s debut The Berry Pickers (Catapult 2023) is a quiet triumph of a novel about grief, anger, loss, identity, and forgiveness. When I was a child, I asked for The Face on the Milk Carton for Christmas. (It’s one of a few books I rememberContinue reading “THE BERRY PICKERS – Amanda Peters”
A Girl Named Tommi 