Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m biggie sizing my hygge hour today. We‘re getting rain for the first time in over a month and I‘m going to sit still and celebrate that.

Check out an award winning book recommendation by Kim on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday here: https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-break

Tough to read, tougher to review. Multiple narrators (at least 10, one of whom is not named at the top of her passages, and only one in first-person) in this multi-generational family story of surviving both specific and general trauma; lots of sentence fragments; present-tense writing (except when it‘s not) - it‘s a lot to track. It‘s good, but tough. Vermette is an indigenous Canadian writer, and very promising. TWs below.

An emotional page turner - this one is realistic, with a haunting violence that permeates the pages and adds an edgyness that feels authentic and experienced. Vermette can tell a story that is for damn sure!

Not a cheery holiday read by any means, but one with resilient, tough women who take care of one another in a brutal world.💕

Hunkering down for a blizzard. ❄️💨 This seems to be an apropos pick and one I‘ve been wanting to read in print for quite a while. I‘m thrilled to see the favorable Litsy reviews.

Bleak and heart breaking this book also shows the resilience of women as they support each other and their families in the face of prejudice, violence, and poverty. I thought this book was fantastic.

(I know it‘s probably not still Friday anywhere in the world, so sue me…)

#FirstLineFridays

It‘s hard to describe how this book is both heartbreakingly tragic, yet wonderful at the same time… very well written, I cannot wait to read more from this author.