![]() Geniek Janowski, nicknamed the Polack because of his name Continue. When it isn’t straining for similes and metaphors, the writing becomes easy and muscular: “the city had pace, a feeling”, a character feels “as if the land was family” while “rail yards and coal smelters coughed exhaust, their soot raining into the South Platte river”. Read 1383 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Good Men Grunberg (Tirza) achieves a Dostoyevskian grandeur in this consummate tale of the travails of a Dutch firefighter. ![]() There is no need for such try-hard phrases, as the raw stuff of Fajardo-Anstine’s world is so fascinating. The same happens with attempts at overly poetic writing, as when describing “the room, its uneasiness, a bleach-like sadness’’, a woman who “fainted, her eyelids fluttering between the waking world and the place she had gone” or a woman who “had a dazed look, as if she’d walked into her own birthday party expecting a wake”. There are unnecessary Reader’s Digest novel-like chapter headings: The Body Snatchers of Bakersfield, California The Sleepy Prophet and the Child From Nowhere. ![]() The prose weakens when reaching for a certain classic register. JWoman of Light By Kali Fajardo-Anstine Review by Lauren Bufferd Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut novel retains a mythic quality while following a woman's journey to claim her own life in the land occupied by her family for generations. ![]() Fajardo-Anstine is brilliant at evoking the everyday resilience of people carrying centuries of history in their souls ![]()
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