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Below is the list offormerOutlanderrecapperand author ofBad FeministandAn Untamed State (favorites ofPhoebe RobinsonandGabrielle Union),Roxane Gay.
This is such an elegant novel.
Ill always love this book.
I so admire howYanagiharaallows the melodrama into this story, and does so unabashedly.
This book is unforgettable and heart-wrenching and all I could ever want in a reading experience.
I first read this short-story collection many years ago and it has stayed with me.
Pachinkois the novel I tell anyone who will listen about.
It is a multigenerational, sweeping saga of Koreans in Japan.
The prose is as edifying as it is absorbing.
The writing in this little collection is atmospheric and claustrophobic and illuminating and lovely.
In each story, Miller shows us how the world is as big as it is small.
There is a scene inTampawhere Celeste marks her territory, if you will, with her own vaginal moisture.
That, in many ways, tells you everything it’s crucial that you know aboutTampaandAlissa Nuttings immense talents.
This novel is disturbing, uncomfortable, irreverent, and compelling.
The level of craft at work in each of the poems inDont Call Us Deadis exceptional.
They are also poignant, and incredibly honest.
It is searing and wondrous and painful, and every time I read it, the ending wrecks me.
And still, I go back for more.
Thats how important this novel is.
Marie is very very bad which makes her very very interesting and, in fact, endearing.
This slender novel is witty and sharp and sexy.
Oh what a ride it is.
