My mother's garden received an unusual visitor. A snail. When I had posted a picture of the snail on Twitter, my friend Caroline recommended Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating. I was in between quite a few books when the recommendation came my way, but it became an antidote to my … Continue reading Book Review: The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Month: March 2021
Book Review: The Orders Were To Rape You
Trigger Warning: Mentions of sexual violence and genocide In Purananuru, an anthology of four hundred Tamil poems written by more than 152 poets between the first and third centuries C.E., emperors were exalted. Their wisdom, and their valour in war were celebrated. But women were assigned certain roles. They were the martyrs’ mothers, widows, and … Continue reading Book Review: The Orders Were To Rape You
Book Review: Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
This was their perfect moment. Another almost-erased history unaborted. And this house with its hundred-plus years. This house with its stained-glass and leaded windows. This house with its generations cheering, saying, Dance, y'all and Ashe and The ancestors are in the house, say what? I and everything and everyone around me was their dream come … Continue reading Book Review: Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
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