Category: Book Reviews
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“Sabrina and Corina” is as powerful as literary fiction gets
“Sabrina and Corina” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine is as magical as literary fiction can get. While each character in every story is different from the rest, they still flow together as they universally focus on the relationships between various Latin women with Indigenous descent residing in Denver, Colorado. These relationships vary from sisters to distant cousins…
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“Flowers of Mold” by Ha Seong-Nan is strangely mesmerizing
“Flowers of Mold” is a strange collection of Korean short stories published this year by Ha Seong-Nan. With a total of ten stories, Seong-Nan unveils a foreign world where unnerving events seem to happen at every corner. There’s a story where a landlord decides to raise the rent and his five tenants plan on killing…
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“Things We Lost In The Fire” is a shocking, dark collection of short stories
“Things We Lost In The Fire” by Mariana Enríquez is a shocking collection of short stories that target the darker sides of the human psyche. These stories fall under the intense ruling of an Argentinian dictatorship – which played a huge part in the creation of this creepy, literary world. Each short story talks about…
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Lot by Bryan Washington turns Houston into a heart gripping tale
“Lot” by Bryan Washington might be my favorite read of 2019 so far. Not only is it a perfect visual representation of Houston but also it focuses on everything from race to poverty to sexual identity. I was able to fully identify with this creative work because I’m a Afro-Latina that lives in Houston. However,…
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Four LGBT classics you need to add to your reading list right now
Chances are your English literature classes made you read novels focused on heterosexual white characters, and I’m here to tell you that you’ve been missing out. After taking a gay and lesbian literature class in college, I learned that there’s more to life than plain Janes and Christophers. Here are my three favorite LGBT- (lesbian,…
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Book Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz is a raunchy, explicit book that isn’t for the weak. Díaz digs deep with this collection of short stories to create Yunior, a problematic Dominican that only knows how to hurt the ones he loves. Díaz explores everything from race to love to brokenness to self-loathing…
Diamond Braxton 