RaveForeword Reviews\"Engelhard’s daily accounts are stirring with their descriptions of profound solitude, vast spaces, and endless daylight. There are lyrical, often witty memories of grizzlies, arctic terns, ptarmigans, and lichen ... a poetic memoir about a solitary trek across a remote and majestic wilderness.\
Asja Bakic, trans. by Jennifer Zoble
RaveForeword ReviewsDaring, imaginative ... Several pieces have the shadowy, unsettling quality of fairy tales ... Throughout this wide-ranging collection, sly humor accents the penetrating observations ... The dystopian stories collected in Sweetlust raise piercing, inventive questions that transcend place and time, leading to reflections on contemporary experiences. Here, intelligent, resourceful heroines learn to endure and even rise above their grim circumstances—whether or not survival is enough.
Chris Dombrowski
RaveForeword Reviews... poetic ... captures the natural beauty and drama of Montana ... In slow, eddying prose, the memoir mines an ordinary life for evocative reflections on family, friendship, and the meaning found in a rugged landscape. It includes lengthy discourses on fly fishing, hunting for deer and pheasants, exquisite meals of game and foraged food, and the wisdom attained in \'resonant quietude.\' It also features graceful passages about Dombrowski’s float trips and lavish feasts with poet Jim Harrison. The writing is at its most compelling, though, when its lines are taut, as with Dombrowski’s wistful reflections on his visits with two close friends before they died, on the anxiety of almost losing his second child, and on his conflicted feelings upon returning to northern Michigan for a year-long teaching job ... a profound, moving memoir that contemplates the earth, family, and community in its tributes to the intimate beauty of western Montana.
Christopher Linforth
PositiveForeword ReviewsChiseled, captivating ... The stories are often gloomy and unresolved ... With compassion and brutal honesty, the stories in The Distortions deal with how war tears people apart, but also with the stubborn resistance of those who search for redemption.
Morgan Talty
RaveForeword ReviewsDiscerning, masterful ... Haunting details capture the restlessness of David’s world ... Night of the Living Rez is bleak and raw in depicting David’s experiences—but his brilliant, chiseled stories still demand attention, demonstrating the urgency of telling the truth.
Ashleigh Bell Pedersen
PositiveForeword Reviews... captivating ... Told with vision and compassion, The Crocodile Bride is a novel about a strong-minded, resourceful girl who breaks from her dark family history and hopes to live out a better story herself.
Jo Lloyd
PositiveForeword ReviewsThe short stories collected in Jo Lloyd’s Something Wonderful are luminous, startling, and diverse. In them, characters search for meaning, value, and truth, often describing their circumstances with wry bluntness ... Lloyd does pay proper attention, and the stories of Something Wonderful capture telling details in a unique, powerful voice.
Lana Bastasic
RaveForeword Reviews\"Set against the striking backdrop of post-war Bosnia, Catch the Rabbit is a poignant, wrenching novel about the power of memory and the challenges of knowing another person.\
Jimena Canales
RaveForeword Reviews... captivating ... Canales’s chapter on quantum theory includes a dazzling exploration of demons in the work of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, and other scientists ... a brilliant, challenging overview of the myth-driven scientific endeavors that transform human understandings of the world.
JD Scott
RaveForeword ReviewsJD Scott’s Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day is a dazzling collection of stories—part dystopian, part fabulist, and wholly immersive ... Sharp, compelling language leads to immersion in Joshua’s disorienting world of shape-shifters and shadows, which challenges expectations ... Like stepping through a looking glass, the stories of Moonflower, Nightshade, All Hours of the Day skirt the edges of reality and shimmer with enchanting, otherworldly light.
Brian Deer
RaveForeword ReviewsA gripping and timely work of investigative journalism ... captivating on many levels. It is a comprehensive review of Wakefield’s dubious research methods and perpetual falsification and obfuscation of data to fit his theories. It explores the broad network of doctors, lawyers, investors, anti-vaccine crusaders, journalists, and celebrities whom Wakefield enlisted to perpetuate a myth which contributed to a significant decline in vaccination rates and, ultimately, a global resurgence of measles. It reveals how the charismatic Wakefield profited from his own deceptions, manipulating government agencies, medical journals, and broadcast and social media. And it tells the sad, compelling stories of the children who took part in Wakefield’s research and their parents, who were desperate to explain and understand their children’s disabilities ... At a time when the World Health Organization lists \'vaccine hesitancy\' as one of the top ten threats to global health, this stunning work sounds an urgent message and demonstrates the essential role of investigative journalism in uncovering the truth.
Nancy Au
PositiveForeword ReviewNancy Au’s exquisite short story collection...focuses on survivors—refugees, orphans, widows, single mothers, and village elders—who are caught between old world Chinese values and heritages and the challenges and promise of a new world ... Tremendous in their sensitivity and imagination, these stories layer complex images with a powerful cadence. Their characters struggle to navigate cultural differences and challenging circumstances ... Nancy Au’s debut short story collection is resonant, nuanced, and profound, and its views of characters facing difficulty with strength and courage are unique and engaging.
