Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange — Katie Goh
Fruit becomes an object and artifact of history, shaping the currents of the world and the present moment
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
This is the nightmare of being a teenager, how the temporary bleeds into permanence in a developing mind and body.
Now More Than Ever – Greta Schledorn
What Schledorn reveals isn’t a secret self but the impossibility of having one.
Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou
Theodoridou […] takes readers beyond named characters like Agnes and Eunice, and largely beyond hope.
In the Realm of Motes – Baptiste Gaillard
Human witnesses are nowhere in this book
Silverman explains the ways the US’s richest people have moved to the political right
Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed — Sangamithra Iyer
One of the book’s strengths is how it carefully recounts exposure to ideas that accumulate into belief and eventually into action.
The vampire and the ex-rocker make a mournful pair: he with his ruined hands, she with her sad nocturnal life. He needs heroin; she needs blood. He has nothing left to live for; she hasn’t truly lived in centuries.
Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.