Sarah Perry’s , Carrie Courogen’s , and Joseph O’Neill’s all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * “Absorbing and affecting .
.. Thanks to the economical grace and emotional force of Ms.
Perry’s writing, we are also held fast by other crises, inserted like tiny detonators in her narrative. Death and desolation, though all too familiar, are freshly affecting ..
. A novel of ideas, however, as well as one of emotion ..
. It is hard to think of another modern novelist who portrays religious faith with such intelligent sympathy.” –Anna Mundow ( ) “O’Neill’s storytelling here has an enthralling fireside quality, ushering us with deceptive simplicity into a labyrinth of motive and desire, breathtaking betrayals and artfully twined threads.
A book to sink into, in other words, and one not to be missed.” –Anthony Cummins ( ) “A tremendously exciting novel. Rarely making us wait more than twenty pages between set pieces, it executes these with such blood-pumping aplomb that we are grateful for the breathers at the end of them.
Then there is the brilliantly realized voice ...
Blunt and brutal.” –George Cochrane ( ) “Splendid ..
. Revelatory scholarship that gives full measure to this artist who despite obstacles and setbacks (some self-inflicted) is an exalted figure in the comedy pantheon, a distinct voice whose outlier creative life Courogen captures through original research, archival.