Susan Burton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Susan Burton

Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid…A military wife offers support for her husband’s work. But it is a different kind of unseen labor. What comes across powerfully in Gorrindo’s telling is the labor of accommodation and compliance.

Susan Burton

So many good lists, but drawing attention to this one b/c it includes Anissa Gray's tender novel THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS, which features a rare character in fiction, a black woman in her 40s struggling with an eating disorder. https://t.co/2sGGaY6FJA

Susan Burton

NOTES ON A SILENCING by @lacy_crawford is extraordinary. I stayed up late with it, underlined sentences, slowed down over it so I wouldn't get to the end. Searing, gorgeous. I'm honored to have the chance to talk to Lacy about her memoir today—7 ET/4 PT. https://t.co/p3ZQRR2dcW

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A family on a train from the West. The children start the journey with parents and end as orphans. All the talk of the 1918 flu took me back to the book that formed my first & lasting image of that epidemic, Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. https://t.co/kkRgtF28TR

Susan Burton

Elegantly expressed... Blair’s disease offers her a new way to see her past, and she uses it to define her own history.

Susan Burton

THE EQUIVALENTS by @magsrdoherty is one of my favorite recent books and as with anything I love I wanted MORE and read this interview. https://t.co/3QK2PiptrU

Susan Burton

Madeleine's novel The Inland Sea will be published in the U.S. next year, and I have been badly wanting to read it ever since I saw this tweet describing @madeleine_watts as a "Millennial Helen Garner." https://t.co/Ik6QkY226k