Book Reviews
Maya Somogyi Reviews "She Who Became the Sun"
Zhu Chongba in Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun must maintain her role at her monastery as one of the male disciples, trick the men in her army into giving her respect, and above all, sustain her masquerade before the watchful eyes of Heaven as ‘Zhu Chongba,’ the stolen identity of her dead brother…
Amie Samson Reviews "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue"
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was written by V. E. Schwab, also known as Victoria Schwab, who is a queer author. Schwab’s debut novel, The Near Witch, was sold to Disney her second year in university and later published in 2011. She graduated from Washington University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009. The…
Aberdeen Roy Reviews "The Last Words on Earth"
What aspects of life compose the “American identity”? How can one acculturate after a great loss? Nicole Krauss’s short story “The Last Words on Earth” answers these questions by focusing on the life of Leo Gursky, an elderly Jewish man who lived through the Holocaust…