virgin and other stories by april ayers lawson

In the words of the publisher: ‘From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration.’”Ī Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind, by Siri Hustvedt, published by Simon and Schuster “It presents a series of short stories about those living between the worlds they leave behind, the country of birth, and their new adopted homelands, and it’s while it’s no easy, lighthearted read, it is a critical and powerful one. “If you’re of the school of thought which believes that the short story form offers a more digestible means of grasping the horrors going on in our world today, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees might be the collection which changes your mind,” writes Maisie Skidmore. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen: February 7, 2017, published by Corsair For now, though, her books delve into them almost exactly as much each reader is willing to let them, distracting and revealing as we wish them to be.” One day archivists of modern history will look to Smith for her lucid and pertinent diagnosis of the issues which permeate our society, often sitting unseen just below the surface. Her most recent novel, Swing Time – which takes as its subject the prickling, intense friendship between Tracey and our anonymous narrator, two young mixed race girls growing up in modern London – presents more of the electric dialogue and richly layered references we’ve learned to expect from Smith, anchored in pop culture and world music and the ineffable complexities of the relationships women build with other women. “You don’t need a degree in English literature to recognise the impact Zadie Smith has had on her chosen industry,” acting editor of Maisie Skidmore explains – “her name, and the searing prose that has come to be associated with it, is recognised worldwide, at once personal and universal in its reach.

Swing Time by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Random House

Virgin and other stories by april ayers lawson