yvonne garrett Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

yvonne garrett

As Cursed Bread moves through alternating chapters, shifting back and forth through time, there is a slowly accumulating experience of vertiginous panic. Loosely based on a historical event… Cursed Bread is a serpentine tale of repressed desire…

yvonne garrett

For Harjo, poetry is both a calling and a necessity for survival... Most of these fifty vignettes get right to the heart of the matter--as is Harjo's way. We need writing to make sense of the world.

yvonne garrett

Like much of her work, Nunez's latest seeks brief and blisteringly beautiful moments of connection, which burn ever brighter amid the haunting loneliness she crafts

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yvonne garrett

My review of Lorrie Moore's new novel is out now in the June issue of @TheBrooklynRail #fiction #readinglist https://t.co/bpxMvSrcsS

yvonne garrett

The Future, is a hefty but highly compelling page-turner that pulled me in and kept me reading from the first line. It’s a very dark read but also shot through with humor, sharp satire, compassion, a great love story, and well-wrought prose.

yvonne garrett

These fifteen stories are a master class in how to write, a rollicking good time, and a deep exploration of human relationships—the damage we do to each other and the ways we come together. Delving into Atwood’s work feels a bit like coming home—you can trust her to tell a good story.

yvonne garrett

Over almost three hundred pages, Link presents seven stories full of life and love, magic and death, and does it in sparkling prose... a truly well-wrought and magical work, these stories have a chilling core and deep observations on modern life that we can all learn from.

yvonne garrett

...It’s not all just horror stories and scary games, abandoned buildings and encroaching forest … Although critics reference Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson, Ojeda is a strikingly singular voice, combining basic teen angst with stark madness and the power of teen girls...

yvonne garrett

wildly creative, darkly funny... anyone wanting to see good comics art should read this book... it’s the combination of both image and story that gives Eightball its lasting power.