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|author=Thea Lenarduzzi
 
|title=The Tower
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Literary Fiction
 
|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
 
 
In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. 
 
|isbn=1804271799
 
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'''23 OCTOBER'''
 
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|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator)
 
|title=Vaim
 
|rating=4
 
|genre=Literary Fiction
 
|summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.
 
|isbn=1804271829
 
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'''29 JANUARY'''
 
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29 JANUARY

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Review of

Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman

4.5star.jpg Literary Fiction

It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous. Full Review