![]() Despite this remarkable scope, Davenport also delivers inventive prose and pinpoint intimacy. In this multi-generational novel that spans Hawai'i’s history, we’re exposed to whaling, Hawai'ian cowboys, plagues, political coups and ill-fated romances. It’s impossible not to be immersed in the world Kiana Davenport builds in this book. I want to follow in her footsteps and delve deeply into the wonderful possibilities of fiction unafraid of boundaries. Her book cracked something open in me that’s still spilling out. Possession, survival, compromise: by the end of this slim novel, those concepts will never sit the same in the reader’s mind.Īll The Names They Used For God Anjali SachdevaĪ seditious angel who runs heavenly words through a blind scribe two female hostages who develop telekinetic powers to liberate themselves a deep-sea fisherman who becomes obsessed with a beastly mermaid: all this and more in Anjali Sachdeva’s rightfully lauded collection. To tell the tale of Japanese women bought as brides and shipped to America, she gives us a first-person collective voice, a choice that might seem gimmicky in the hands of a lesser writer. ![]() ![]() I’d read Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine before this book, and both are mind-altering. ![]()
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