2/24/2024 0 Comments Em dash persona poems![]() What I’ve Heard: Miriam Toews’ first novel since 2018’s Women Talking once again centres on the bonds between women and the strength that can be drawn from them. ![]() Dealing with absent fathers, friendship, and wayward boyfriends, People Person sounds like another smash hit in the making. People Person is another character-led book, this time with thirty-year-old Dimple Pennington (great name) and her four half-siblings at the helm. What I’ve Heard: Queenie was one of my favourite books of 2019, so the news that 2022 was bringing a new Candice Carty-Williams’ novel made my whole week. Having loved Armfield’s short story collection Salt Slow, I’ll be first in line for Our Wives Under the Sea which promises sapphic romance, murky ocean imagery and a dash of horror. What I’ve Heard: It seems like everyone on gay book Twitter has a copy of this new Julia Armfield novel, and frankly, it’s not fair. Vagabonds! has been pitched as a ‘celebration of queerness in all its forms’ à la Akwaeke Emezi’s beautiful The Death of Vivek Oji. What I’ve Heard: A ‘radical’ debut novel following the ‘vagabonds’ in bustling Lagos: the displaced, the queer and the rogue. ![]() What I’ve Heard: A sprawling family saga focused around the family’s matriarch? I’ll have a slice of this cake, please! Considering the fact that this is Wilkerson’s debut novel and it’s generated this much hype (not to mention Oprah has already picked it up for a limited series on Hulu), this book seems like a bestseller in the making. ![]()
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