Tag: Contemporary Fiction
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Review: The Wedding People
A woman at her lowest checks into a hotel and unexpectedly walks into a wedding. The Wedding People shows how strangers pull her back.
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Review: Kairos
Kairos by Erpenbeck looks at alternating perspectives, emotional distance, and the link between personal relationships and political history.
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Review: Martyr!
This review of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar looks at Cyrus’s journey through addiction, grief, and art while questioning meaning and sacrifice.
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Review: No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This begins as an internet-saturated narrative before shifting into a raw story about family and grief.
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Review: To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
To Rest Our Minds and Bodies explores final-year university life, capturing freedom, friendship, and the space between youth and adulthood.
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Review: Beartown
Beartown is a great novel that exposes the silent pressures of a small town, revealing hard truths about ambition, loyalty, and community.
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Review: My Friends
From watching A Man Called Otto on a flight to reading My Friends, I share my first experience with Fredrik Backman’s writing.







