Kristen Martin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Kristen Martin

The puzzle of Lucy's death propels Women and Children First, but Grabowski's novel is not a thriller or a whodunit... Ultimately, the novel is less about the mystery of Lucy and more about how our actions impact one another, even when — especially when — we think we lack agency.

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I adored @shockproofbeats’s truly hilarious memoir DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED?, which forms a testament to the fact that losing a parent at a young age doesn't end your childhood. My review for @nprbooks:

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Kristen Martin

Although Kenneally’s focus is on finding out what happened to children at orphanages rather than exploring how they ended up there in the first place, the picture she paints of St. Joseph’s fits neatly into the larger history of orphanhood in America.

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We Were Once a Family uncovers the failures of modern foster care through the story of the Hart-family murder-suicides... [It] powerfully uses this one story to expose how what happened to these children is indicative of the classism and racism still baked into the institution.

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For @nprbooks, I reviewed Dizz Tate's debut novel BRUTES, which is narrated by a chorus of 13-year-old girls, making for an original and stylistically ambitious take on the well-trodden subject matter of girls in peril: https://t.co/PNHC5Wq8OD

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An exigent reflection on a truly remarkable life, one that holds lessons about humanity and the power of art to make those lessons visible. "It increasingly seems that life is something that happens to you and art the opportunity to understand what's transpired," Milch writes...

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For @newrepublic, I wrote about Idra Novey's novel TAKE WHAT YOU NEED—a book about mothers and daughters, estrangement, grief, art-making, and inheritance that upends familiar tropes of forgotten America: https://t.co/GnGjaj2ZGx @IdraNovey

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