January Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 085, January 2021 Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (2020) The year 2020, despite all its tedious horrors and misery, did bring with it the positive arrival of an influx Japanese novels translated to English. Among these includes Mieko Kawakami’s […]
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 084, December 2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020) Sometimes, the greatest novels of the year can sneak up on you. Shuggie Bain is a debut from author Douglas Stuart published in February of 2020 that got lost in the fervor of the year we were about to
BOOK CLUB By Hana Zittel Published Issue 081, September 2020 Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (2020) Poet, translator and essayist Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s newest book takes his enchanting and poetic language into the realm of memoir. Castillo details growing up undocumented in California after his family crosses to the United States from Zacatecas, Mexico.