RaveForeword ReviewsMagnificent ... Comet-bright and eloquent, I Cheerfully Refuse is a perfect novel that treats dystopian circumstances as transient so long as literacy remains.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
RaveForeword ReviewsCaptivating ... A novel that’s rife with enchantments––a classic in the making, introducing generations of heroines who are destined to be beloved.
Kate Brody
PositiveForeword Reviewseddy is a complicated heroine whose ill-advised decisions and self-destructive tendencies make her less than sympathetic, though also impossible to ignore. Her descent is swift and systematic, leading to sensationalist developments and voyeuristic turns. No one and nothing, she learns, should be trusted—including her own tangled memories. The dark corners of the internet feed a teacher’s investigation into her sister’s probable murder in the contemporary thriller Rabbit Hole.
Amanda Peters
RaveForeword ReviewsHeartrending ... Heartbreaking as it details two families’ open wounds—which, untreated or untreatable, continue to fester across the years––this is a novel about prejudice, unaddressed trauma, and the incalculable costs of concealing the truth. Its late developments are a balm, but not a cure; they speak to the endurance of family bonds—and to the significance of forgiveness.
Margaret Renkl
RaveForeword ReviewsThese collected columns are not just a celebration of Nashville’s green spaces ... Among them are fierce indictments of political malfeasance ... Come for the righteousness, stay for the linguistic sorcery ... Charming accounts of vengeful mall Santas, roadside attractions as proof of humanity’s wit and wile, and drawing peace from family heirlooms round the irresistible collection out. Renkl observes that great writers \'know their communities from the inside out\'; Graceland, At Last proves the maxim with its generous helpings of Southern hospitality.
Marian Womack
PositiveForeword ReviewIf the worst happens in The Golden Key, it’s because wise women were not believed, or because those with too much power were given dangerous leeway. That lesson looms in the final, horrifying, and entrancing moments of this fairy tale with a twist.
Andrew Krivak
RaveForeword ReviewsThe Bear is a dreamy dispatch from the end of the world. In Andrew Krivak’s palimpsest novel, the reassertion of nature over the bones of human civilization is a dignified and regretless process ... The novel concentrates less on the tragedies of humanity’s disappearance than it does on the interconnectedness of all beings. Within this story: if the last human goes out nobly, having treated the world around them with respect, all has not been lost. The girl and her father are worthy guides through their latter day landscape, as are the creatures that address the girl through an otherworldly haze. Triumphant to its last breath, The Bear is a lovely, unforgettable experience.
Sarah Pinsker
PositiveForeward ReviewShattering melancholia and desire and cobbling together fresh wonders from the pieces, the stories of Sarah Pinsker’s speculative Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea emit appealing weirdness ... Whether Pinsker’s characters are on spacecraft jetting toward the future or are in the distant past, they contend with familiar worries and wants: questions of what should be forgotten and what should be preserved; concerns around revealing their identities to people who only see in black and white. Even at their most winding and imaginative, these are tales that feel like home, if it’s \'home\' regarded from a different angle. Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is a collection whose musing visions none should try to resist.
