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DANCING AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Fans of Stockett’s bestselling debut will love this engaging follow-up. Stockett heads to Mississippi for another historical novel about feisty women. This time, perhaps recalling criticisms of cultural appropriation in The Help (2009), she sticks to feisty white women, with one exception. The setting is Oxford in 1933. For two miserable years, 11-year-old Meg has lived in “the Orphan,” a county asylum for parentless girls.
A Love Affair Preserved by a Petrified Fetus
A Love Affair Preserved by a Petrified Fetus Michelle Sacks Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . “Stone Baby” by Michelle Sacks Madame Monique of Riad Bovary in Fez, a once-beautiful Frenchwoman who didn’t seem to object to the waning of her youth or beauty, was up every morning at six a.m. It was always the same.
States of Strangeness and Wonder: A Great American Road Trip
1. Before it was even published, Gwyneth Paltrow’s third and latest cookbook drew me in. I first saw the cover in someone’s Instagram post. It’s an image of Paltrow smiling — a smile so genuine it borders on dorky. She’s holding a bin of fresh produce. Her long white-blonde hair falls unfussily over her shoulders. The sleeves of her oversized sweater are rolled up a bit. She’s not trying to be beautiful. She just is. The title seems confirmation: It’s All Easy.
Five Books with Complex and Credible Child Narrators
I’ve never met a child narrator I didn’t like. I’m certain they do exist, somewhere out there, but the ones I’ve encountered over the years are up there with some of my favorite and most memorable reads. I can remember these children of fiction in ways I often can’t remember adults. I can clearly recall the tone of their voices, the inventiveness of their language, the way their stories are so frequently heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time.
You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks
LoveReading View on You Were Made for This “If you saw us you’d probably hate us...The perfect little family, living the perfect little life”, explains Merry, one of the three flawed narrators of this gripping debut. She and husband Sam have left New York and set up home in a picture-book-perfect little red wooden house in rural Sweden “What more could I hope for. What more could I need?” she asks rhetorically.
How place can inspire story - Michelle Sacks
I never imagined that I’d set my first novel in Sweden. I’ve long been a confirmed Scandiphile, with a particular fondness for Sweden, its people, and its approach to many of the issues closest to my heart – from gender equality (480 days of paid parental leave!) to progressive environmental policies (they have literally run out of trash to recycle!) to the promotion of a balanced, well-rounded life (fika, anyone?).
A Love Affair Preserved by a Petrified Fetus – Electric Literature
When her father died suddenly, she returned for a brief time to France. Her mother was old with grief, lined and brittle as if she might break. You must come home now, she said, we are all that is left. She helped her mother pack up the closets and bundled up her father’s shirts and books into cardboard boxes. He had surprisingly little, for a man of so many years. In the back of the wardrobe she found his journals from his time in the war and slipped them into her coat to take with her.
STONE BABY by Michelle Sacks
The 12 stories in Sacks' debut collection zigzag across the globe, from Germany to India and Morocco, coming back frequently to South Africa. Each centers on a character who has arrived in a new locale to find something, to flee something, or both. In the opening piece we meet a man known only as Kingdom, who fled war and suffering to come to South Africa. He now works as a hit man.
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