Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi – Review

I have a lot of feelings about Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.

I have a lot of words for it too, but none of them seem to completely encompass how I feel about it. Beautiful and poetic, unflinching and cruel, real and magical are all phrases which can be used to describe Homegoing, but the truth of this novel is that it’s bigger than that.

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Hero Is A Four Letter Word by J. M. Frey – Review

The battle between good and evil is so familiar to us in fiction that we don’t often think to question it. Nobody doubts the evil of an empire garbed in black, or a super villain who looks like the devil and wants to control the world, but if good versus evil is an idea that’s simple and clear, J.M. Frey seeks to muddy the waters. In Hero is a Four Letter Word, Frey walks the boundary line between hero and villain with three fresh and inventive short stories.

[Full disclosure, I received a review copy of this short story collection from Story Cartel in return for an unbiased review.]

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