Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 097, January 2022 Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (2021) “Not iron deficiency or episode. Nothing ‘wrong’ with her. Just one night. One night of violence was what she needed. One night to not care what anyone thought, to shit where she pleased, to not be needed by any living […]
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 096, December 2021 Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (2021) The collected words of Winfred Rembert by Erin I. Kelly captures the heart wrenching journey of a young man from a field
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 095, November 2021 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021) Nobel prize winning Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel is a heartbreaking and emotional journey through the essence of human experience disguised as dystopian science fiction. Set in the near future, Klara and the Sun centers on Klara, a
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 094, October 2021 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (2021) Torrey Peter’s debut novel zeros in on the lives of three people navigating all the complicated, messy and beautiful parts of relationships. Reese is deep into unsatisfying and destructive relationships with married men when she gets a call from
Book Club Hana Zittel Published Issue 092, August 2021 Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall (2021) “…Why knocks an angel in Bethlehem?” Thomas Quinn receives this cryptic message on his landline’s answering machine, unable to reach the call in time. The voice coming from the machine sounds very much like the voice of his late father,
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 091, July 2021 The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (2021) Amadeo is 33, drinking to excess, and sinking into the deepest rut of his life living at home with his mother in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico. He makes the decision, motivated by his
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 090, June 2021 A Perfect Cemetery by Federico Falco (2016), Translated by Jennifer Croft 2021 Federico Falco circles the melancholy circumstances of death in his first translated book into English through five short stories. Each set in the mountainous region of Córdoba, Argentina, Falco winds us into snippets
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 089, May 2021 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2020) When four members of the Blackfeet Nation make the ill-advised decision to hunt elk on land reserved for elders, their fates are sealed as a violent haunting starts to unfold around them. Stephen Graham Jones’ newest
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 088, April 2021 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (2020) The setup of Rumaan Alam’s novel, Leave the World Behind, lures us into a scene that could be sucked right out of a Jordan Peele movie. A white family of four, Amanda, Clay, and their two children,
Book Club By Hana Zittel Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss (2020) “The contested copper under Oak Flat was created by the stars that were born and died billions of years ago. The copper is older than Earth itself. A mine here would operate for about 40