In my last post -- a review of Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous -- I wrote, "If the fences are eventually lifted, where will we go from there?" Strangely, Leesa Gazi's Hellfire, translated from the Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya, starts from there. Lovely gets out of the house for the first time all … Continue reading Book Review: Hellfire by Leesa Gazi
Month: April 2021
Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong
I am always looking for something sweet, something ugly, something that talks about what it means to be human, something that can tell me that there is meaning and that this life is not absurd, and something that can hold space for me to salvage myself. Even when I read a pop-science book on how … Continue reading Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong
Book Review: Long Live The Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth
Trigger Warning: This blog contains mentions of suicide and depression. There was a lid over the world. As in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, I thought. I wondered if I should read it again, but surely it would only intensify my sense of isolation, I punch my fists into the air as if to smash … Continue reading Book Review: Long Live The Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth
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