When I picked up Nghi Vo’s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful, I was excited to get a more femme retelling of one of my favorite books of all time, The Great Gatsby. What I ended up getting was a new mantra: if white men can rewrite history, women of color can rewrite their books. Let’s face it, literature has stood the test of time better than history, anyway.
Read MoreDoes the novelty of This is How You Lose the Time War lie in the authors who penned it, the feminine and LGBTQ themes, the lack of male characters in sci-fi, or the fun reimaging of the time travel subgenre? Yes to all of the above.
Read MoreNo One Is Talking About This is not your typical novel. It’s among many books that make me ask, “When can we get a subgenre for novels written by poets?” Laced in metaphor to mirror the confusing layers of information one gets from the internet and told in two main parts rather than three acts, it’s the kind of book you finish in an afternoon, as long as you can get past the daunting and dizzying first few pages. I’ve never gone from laughing to sobbing the way I did reading this book.
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