Miss Queenie – 4/5 Stars This is a brilliant follow-up to The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry that came out a few years earlier. Like very few, but very potent sequels, this one eclipses the original. While the original book is heart-warming and touching, something akin to the Straight Story meeting BBC2, this book is downright beautiful and devastating. Harold Fry was about a man who receives a simple and cryptic postcard from a former colleague from the time he worked for a local brewery. His […]
I breathed hard, feeling like I was underwater looking at her.
Start here: Ok so there’s a whole sub-genre of American lit we could call the “Rough South” a name which one of my all time favorite college professors use to describe works by Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Lee Smith, Tim Gautreaux, William Gay and various others in this cohort. These books breathe life into the bull**** factors abound in Hillbilly Elegy. These are the books that actually show life, perceived through eyes that know how to find the humanity but also the horror in […]