In The Fake, Zoe Whittall takes a blisteringly funny look at con artists and the people they target
Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.
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Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.
This Is the House That Luke Built is a strong first novel, clearly adept at marrying its form and content.
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."
Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.
Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.
By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.