Spring reading has included re-reading Toni Morrison (Sula, Beloved, Home, A Mercy), and reading for the first time The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail, Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and, at long last I've started The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute. I've been wanting to read the Gabriel Byrne book too. I read a review of it so long ago and added it to my list.
Deaf Republic kept me up at night, during and after I read it. I wept at one point. I started it again immediately upon finishing. It still haunts me. Kaminsky compressed all wars, all violence into an unnamed town in an unnamed country and showed me my world, myself.
Spring reading has included re-reading Toni Morrison (Sula, Beloved, Home, A Mercy), and reading for the first time The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail, Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and, at long last I've started The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute. I've been wanting to read the Gabriel Byrne book too. I read a review of it so long ago and added it to my list.
Very cool! I've been wanting to re-read Morrison too. How was Deaf Republic?
Deaf Republic kept me up at night, during and after I read it. I wept at one point. I started it again immediately upon finishing. It still haunts me. Kaminsky compressed all wars, all violence into an unnamed town in an unnamed country and showed me my world, myself.
That sounds incredible.