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I wrote about Ready, Set, Go and beginning with a deconstructed metaphor.

https://bit.ly/ReadyJump

I wrote about this book and a hell of a metaphor: bit.ly/SticksMoreMeta

I wrote about how the inclusion of photographs and other artifacts, as well as allusions to outside texts, deepens the experience of reading this book while gesturing to something beyond it.

https://bit.ly/CityArtifacts

I wrote about the way one of these stories, "Portrait of a Good Father" uses a still object to create a different sort of movement.

https://bit.ly/paradisestill

I wrote about the first chapter of Mongrels and how it creates and holds and extends the sense of wonder.

https://bit.ly/MongWond

This is a beautiful and dangerous book that will haunt me for a long time. The prose is elegant and playful. The story is, too. In other books, when a girl goes missing, she is erased. In other books, we get the story of the people around her: their grief, their search, their revenge. But this book sticks with the girl, imagining her life, her many other possible lives. It interrogates the usual erasure in smart and subversive ways. But it's also just a good story--suspenseful, compelling, and ultimately redemptive, but not in the way you'd predict.

I also wrote about a twisting metaphor in the book: bit.ly/quantmet