Book Review: All Fours by Miranda July
All Fours caught a bit of buzz in 2024 for its premise — a married woman upending her life on a quest for freedom and a sexual awakening. It was…
Book Review: Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
When a young girl dies while playing with other children in a London estate, suspicion is cast on a ten-year-old girl from a reclusive Irish family — the Greens. The…
Book Review: The Pisces by Melissa Broder
The Pisces by Melissa Broder is potentially the wildest book I have ever read. I don’t remember what first drew me to it, only that I read in 2023 as…
Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Kentucky 1901: we meet January Scaller at seven years old tagging along on her guardian’s business trip. January’s guardian, a Mr. Locke, is a collector of artifacts and her father’s…
Book Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I found Piranesi by Susanna Clarke at a time when I was looking for something to transport me to an otherworldly place. My go-to reads are usually in the literary…
Book Review: The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
Sometime last year while scouring booklists online for new reads, I came across The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. It’s a coming-of-age story about a sixteen-year-old girl named Odile…
This Is How I Got Caught
Mundia, Noni and I were the first to arrive at the camp. We were received with the customary hot towel and complementary juice before the concierge showed us to our…
Defiance
In the third week of November, Mundia and I got together with our friends and headed out of town for the weekend. Most of us met up separately in the…