About the Book: In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award–winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl and leaves her with … Continue reading Book Review: Love Forms by Claire Adam| Theresa Smith Writes
Mother Mary Comes to Me is a stark and deeply emotional portrait of intergenerational trauma and familial violence, as Arundhati Roy intimately paints her life with and without her mother. […] The post Arundhati Roy’s Memoir Reveals The Price of Being Mother Mary’s Daughter 🎧 appeared first on India Currents.| India Currents
About the Book: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, … Continue reading Book Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura| Theresa Smith Writes
"I first read Stone Yard Devotional in great greedy gulps. It is intense and nakedly personal, and left me wanting more on every page."| Writers Review
"This jewel of a book is out there, like our beautiful planet in space; silent, modest, wonderful, waiting to be found."| Writers Review
The following are a handful of good books I read in the fall of 2024. Two of these are set on the Canadian prairies, two were on the Giller Prize shortlist, and one was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This Bright Dust by Nina Berkhout (Goose Lane Editions) I used to cry easily while reading; … Continue reading From the Library: dust, hair, smoke, and blood| Consumed by Ink
My experience of the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist has been unusually shaped by reviews. For reasons I’ll explore, I came across most of these books first by reputation rather than in the reading. Now, full disclosure: I read a lot of reviews, and I read multiple pieces about each Booker-shortlisted novel every year. This will […]| @Number 71
There’s a moment in Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting – a novel which stands proud of the rest of this year’s Booker Prize shortlist, if only for its bulk, amid the company of what otherwise is a slew of rather slim books – when we flash back to one of the protagonists’ first days at […]| @Number 71