Dizz Tate Recommends…
By review
Dizz Tate Recommends…
By review
Dizz Tate, author of the excellent new novel Brutes, has put together a selection of titles that inspired her, to celebrate the fact she's joining us at Review on March 7th along with Sophie Mackintosh (whose book Cursed Bread is also new out!). Check out all the March 7th event details and ticket link here.
Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez
£9.99 £9.49The story ‘Our Lady of the Quarry’ in this collection was what first inspired me to experiment with the choral voice. As she said in an interview about this story: “I’ve written many stories about teen-age girls that tend to have just one voice, yes, like a chorus, because to me there’s a buzz at that age, a world that functions in your own private language. You are going through a metamorphosis: it’s a very mythological time. You’re a beauty and you’re a monster and you can be damaged and you can hurt.” She balances horror and beauty, power and vulnerability so perfectly in her descriptions of teenage girls.
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
£9.99 £9.49The definitive coming-of-age narrator for me; her longing to belong is so pure, her logic so acute and yet illusory - this book destroys me every time.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
£9.99 £9.49A book full of gorgeous sentences; a story of heat and heartbreak and storms, the ultimate Florida novel.
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
£9.99 £9.49Two sisters on the cusp of growing up choose to either join in with the world or live outside of it - eerie, mysterious, strange. Very good on the mysteries of mothers. Breathtaking sentences - rhythm and meaning perfectly intertwined in every one.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: 'So marvellous that it often stops one in one's tracks.' OBSERVER
Lorrie Moore
£9.99 £9.49The ultimate description of girlhood for me; all singing and weird snacks and trying to find rides home. The most accurate and tender telling of first friendship morphing into first heartbreak. And the dizzy sadness of misguided nostalgia. Loving and devastating and hilarious.
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