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Hadley depicts the inner life of her protagonist & narrator, Stella, with the intimacy of a memoir. In doing so, she captures the world with an accuracy, detail, and poetry so authentic that you'll forget it's fiction.
Beneath the blanket of Angeleno details, Lightning Field is a coming-of-age story—even though the protagonist is already married, has a career & multiple lovers—in the way that LA itself is one big coming-of-age story.
Illuminating & heartbreaking, this iconic revisionist history gives voice to the American Indians who traded, negotiated & eventually fought to preserve their ways of life in the face of America’s westward expansion.
Sidewalks is about space. Where can we go to actually be alone? Where do we build our lives? Where can we rest? From urban cemeteries to other people’s apartments, Sidewalks takes us on a tour of the poetics of space.
While critics have argued that attention to the aesthetic distracts us from suffering or makes us objectify that which is beautiful, this slim yet magnificent essay shows with dazzling intelligence that the opposite is true.
Oyeyemi wrote her celebrated debut novel when she was 18 years old. It’s no wonder, then, that the author of this novel could handle these topics with such mastery and ease; after all, she was just coming of age herself.
Stracher’s drought dystopia - think scarcity, disgusting food, and rampant sickness - sent chills down my spine, especially in light of CA's current water shortage. I now appreciate the fraught politics of water distribution.
A rich biography of a former cattle farmer who became an advocate for the animals of the African Bush, showing the world that, like humans, each animal, from predator to prey, has a soul, a personality & a will to live.
The New York Times isn’t exaggerating when they call After Birth “as essential as ‘The Red Badge of Courage.’” The writing leaps off the page & smacks you in the face & then wraps you in the embrace of sisterhood.
How did a pastime usually associated with frat houses and unfinished basements come to herald a once-in-a-generation political realignment? Griffin tells us with a novelist's flair for drama and characterization.
