“I told her that I loved her more than the sea had water. ‘I love you more than the earth has air,’ she’d say.” Edwidge Danticat’s Dèy (Knopf 2026), is a delicate and fragile novel of love, grief, and home. Of the seven books I’ve read that are longlisted for the National Book Award, DèyContinue reading “Dèy – Edwidge Danticat”
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PRETEND YOU’RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU – Julián Delgado Lopera
“It is a known fact that some people grow to be old, while others become birds or panthers or beasts. Some people even turn into rivers.” “It is a known fact that the queens who refuse their destiny are haunted. Rejection turns itself inward, a bullet to the heart of said queen, and unleashes, perContinue reading “PRETEND YOU’RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU – Julián Delgado Lopera”
A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF – Megha Majumdar
“Hope for the future was no shy bloom but a blood-maddened creature, fanged and toothed, with its own knowledge of history’s hostilities and the cages of the present.” Next up on my NBA reading list is Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief (Knopf 2025). This slim novel packs a powerful punch, each word aContinue reading “A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF – Megha Majumdar”
Norman Rush – Mating
I will readily admit that I have been neglecting my reading, and I can offer no valid excuses – work, pretty eyed boys, sports, and pretty weather for pints are not valid excuses for ignoring the many novels I continue to collect. I’ve been fighting my way through Norman Rush’s Mating for a lot longerContinue reading “Norman Rush – Mating”
