Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self – Danielle Evans
“Many of the stories in Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self hinge on the difference between the people or experiences we think will save us and the total damnation we feel upon pursuing them.”
“The real pleasures of the book come not from its insights into Memory and Time, but from that simplest narrative virtue of good storytelling.”
“The book seems, much in the same manner as many of its main characters, conflicted and unsure.”
“Krauss is a virtuoso craftsman, and each narrative thread unfurls with elegance and suspense.”
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
“The power of the novel lies not in its research, nor in any kind of experimental form, but in its pages.”
The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
It’s difficult to discuss stereotypes with caricatures, to discuss death with characters who could never live.
“For a work that serves in part as an incredible testament to maternal determination, the details of ROOM are brutally honest and never close to saccharin.”
The Four Fingers of Death – Rick Moody
“Moody renders the American West of the future as a place that has suffered massive socio-economic shock, a junkyard that gathers the dusty detritus of a once-great empire.”
The Private Lives of Trees – Alejandro Zambra
“For all his melancholy, Julián is a fragile and brilliant creation, one whose own laws for living mirror the strictures of the novel.”
“We see the effect two souls can have on one another when one soul wants the other to be something other than it is; to wit, itself.”