“Like plot, adulthood is a scam, and Lau wants us to feel the discomfort of a coming-of-age story that resists epiphany and catharsis.” Josie Tolin reviews Jamie Marina Lau’s Pink Mountain on Locust Island, published by Coffee House Press.
“Reading this novel in the time of COVID, as workers suffer, in massive proportions, through financial and psychological implications of job loss, is like sucking air through a cavity.” Josie Tolin on Hilary Leichter’s debut, Temporary.
Josie Tolin on how George Saunders uses a sense of familial inevitability “to both subvert and amplify what might otherwise be a run-of-the-mill, bad-dad situation” in his story “Sticks.”
