‘The Small Backs of Children’ by Lidia Yuknavitch
The plot centers on an orphaned child from a war torn Eastern European country, and how her life captivates and unsettles a group of western artists
‘One Hundred Days of Rain’ by Carellin Brooks
In Carellin Brooks’ One Hundred Days of Rain, we meet a woman going through a divorce with a small son in Vancouver. Rain serves as a kind of co-narrator to the book; it’s both character and metaphor
‘Carry the Sky’ by Kate Gray
Kate Gray has written a stunning book, a blazingly necessary work of fiction for a wounded world.
‘The Possibilities of Mud’ by Joe Jiménez
The speaker in The Possibilities
‘Tiger Heron’ by Robin Becker
“Observant songs of history and elegy, these poems turn our faces to what we can do with love and language, and what we can’t.”
