I am Book Reviews Editor for The Sunlight Press, where I’ve contributed fiction and nonfiction reviews since 2017. My work includes:
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
“Ultimately, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a novel in the style of those great old books Sonia admires: an impeccably detailed world, an epic story full of characters we can root for and relate to, who reflect our hearts back to us and show us something about their time and place as well as ours.”
Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders
“Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders’ highly anticipated first novel, tries to answer two big questions. How does a parent go on living after the unimaginable loss of a child? And where do we go, what happens to us, after we die?”
“I am not one of the millions of readers who made Room a bestseller. My only prior introduction to Emma Donoghue’s work was Astray, a charming collection of historical travel stories inspired by real events. The Wonder, Donoghue’s latest novel, is also historical and fact-based. Set in mid-nineteenth century Ireland, not long after the potato famine, The Wonder is a story of two heroines: Anna O’Donnell, an eleven-year-old who claims to subsist only on “manna from heaven,” and Lib, one of two nurses hired to watch Anna for a fortnight to determine if her claims are truthful.”
“‘Intersectional’ is a popular adjective in contemporary political discourse, especially feminist theory. It simply means the study of overlapping identities and it’s a theme in all of Zadie Smith’s work. Swing Time, her fifth novel, is the finest rendering yet of Smith’s intersectional vision.”
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