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I didn’t read Lisa Ko’s debut, The Leavers, but I do remember it being very well received. It was that and its structure that made me plump for her new novel, Memory Piece, which follows three Asian American women who first meet in 1983, aged twelve, and maintain a connection into their seventies when the […]
I was intrigued by the premise of Ashani Lewis’ debut when I spotted it on Netgalley, putting my hand up, undeterred by the over-used Donna Tartt comparison in the blurb. Opening in Oregon, Winter Animals sees a thirty-six-year-old woman taken up by four young, privileged British people, whose only object in life seems to be
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I wasn’t sure what to expect from Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fear. Wenzel is a mixed-race German who grew up in the old East, a dramatist, musician and performer who’s turned her hand to fiction. Her debut draws heavily on her own life following an unnamed narrator whose mother was an East German punk
1,000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel (transl. Priscilla Layne): ‘Where do you belong?’ Read More »