Book Review: The Death of Vivek Oji

How would you live if you carried a secret that someone would hurt you for? More, how would you die? What would you do if you lost your only child? How would you weep? Resigned and silent… Loud and unforgiving… In The Death of Vivek Oji, author Akwaeke Emezi shares sections of Vivek’s life andContinue reading “Book Review: The Death of Vivek Oji”

Break Out Your Dustiest Earl Grey: A Review of Mexican Gothic

GREETINGS: Already read Mexican Gothic? Check out Oak + River Books’ first Nature in the Novel post, exploring ecocriticism within Mexican Gothic. Noemí Taboada travels to a mansion in the misty woods to keep tabs on her questionably ill and confused cousin who was recently married to the son of an old-wealth family. After someContinue reading “Break Out Your Dustiest Earl Grey: A Review of Mexican Gothic”