Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor When Me and God Were Little by Mads Nygaard, translated by Steve Schein (Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, December 14, 2021; 268 pp.; $16.95 paperback; ISBN 9781950539383). “Oh, well has it been said, that there is…
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Anthropomorphizing Nature
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, November 2, 2021; 368 pp.; $27.00 hardcover, $18.90 ebook; ISBN 9781635578591). First published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK, 2021. “Love is…
Grief and Healing After Crime
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun, translated by Janet Hong (New York: Other Press, October 12, 2021; 160 pp; $20.00 hardcover, $11.99 ebook; ISBN 9781635420883). Originally published in 2019 in Korean by Changbi in Seoul, Korea. “Consequences are…
Four Ruminations on Freedom
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, September 7, 2021; 288 pages; $27.00; ISBN 978-1-64445-062-8 hardcover). “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no…
A Heuristic Tragicomedy
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad, translated by Sverre Lyngstad (New York: New Directions, June 1, 2021; 224 pages; $16.95; ISBN 9780811228268 paperback). First published in Norwegian as Ellevte roman, bok atten by Oktober in…
A Feminist Three Musketeers
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor For the Good of the Realm by Nancy Jane Moore (Seattle: Aqueduct Press, June 1, 2021; 278 pages; $19.00; ISBN: 978-1-61976-187-2 paperback; also available as ebook, $7.95). “…All for One and One for All— that is…
A Modern Parable Explores Prejudice
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa, translated by Megan McDowell (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, May 18, 2021; 140 pages; $14.95; ISBN: 978-1-948830-39-3 paperback; also available as ebook, $9.95). Appeared originally in Spanish as Cara de pan…
Sharing Stories to Heal
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Begin by Telling: Essais Series No. 11 by Meg Remy, illustrated by Logan T. Sibrel (Toronto: Book*hug Press, April 21, 2021; 96 pages; $20.00; ISBN: 9781771666633 paperback; also available as pdf or epub, $14.99 each). “You…
Visual Storytelling and Grief
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector (Seattle: Fantagraphics, March 23, 2021; 216 pages; $29.99; ISBN 9781683964049 hardback). “To be, or not to be: that is the question….” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act III, Scene I) Artist…
What It Means to be Human
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, March 2, 2021; 320 pages; $28.00; ISBN: 9780593318171 hardcover; also available in ebook, audiobook, and large-print formats). Published in the UK by…
Magical Realism for the Current Reality
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Prayer for the Living: Stories by Ben Okri (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, February 2, 2021; 216 pages; $24.95; ISBNs: 978-1-61775-863-8 hardcover, 978-1-61775-874-4 ebook). Originally published by Head of Zeus in London, October 2019. “We live in…
Finding Identity in the Netherlands
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Djinn by Tofik Dibi, translated (& Introduction) by Nicolaas P. Barr (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, January 2021; 143 pages; $19.95; ISBNs: 9781438481302 paperback, 9781438481319 ebook). SUNY series in Queer Politics and Culture.…