What I’m reading
Book review: In Moonland by Miles Allinson
Fatherhood, masculinity, mortality and familial mythologies are explored in four parts in this daring new novel. To step out of the known and abandon trending literary tropes is daring. And In Moonland is nothing if not daring.
Book review: Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer
A wonderfully incisive collection of short stories and a quietly hopeful time capsule of marriage and motherhood over the last century.
Book review: Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Happy Hour is an unassuming and intoxicating book about two young, beautiful girls partying their lives away for one sweltering summer in New York City.
Book review: The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
The Prophets isn’t easy, but it’s worth it; it isn’t straightforward, but it’s sweet work; its message isn’t pretty, but it needs hearing. If you read one book this year, it should be this!
Book review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The story itself is incredibly sad, the content harsh and unflinching, and the writing so atmospheric in a rough, grimy way, that I could not look away. Which is exactly why you should read it!