The Gin Closet – Leslie Jamison
“Stella, a twenty-something in the City, frustrated with the repeated self-injury of her vapid community, steps out of her own life and tries to enact something realer.”
“A vivid battle takes place between Tim and his Id, and the dialogue between the two becomes darkly humorous as Tim struggles to discern his body from his mind from his soul.”
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer
“The Invisible Bridge is insistent in its attention to the survival of humanity in dark times, while admitting that even high romance is all a matter of brutal chance.”
Lamb Bright Saviors – Robert Vivian
“Perhaps by making the preacher contain no greater wisdom, Vivian has damned his novel to simply being a poetic stab at men looking for god and finding Him everywhere.”
“It is a strange thing to find a book with no sense of humor, and stranger still to realize just how important and comforting even trace elements of a comic sensibility can be.”