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Nowadays and Lonelier by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove
5.0
This year I have been having a love affair with Short Fiction and Nowadays and Lonlier was one of the best collections I read!
A fantastic debut! Nowadays and Lonlier consists of 22 stories that are not light and easy. These characters are struggling with addiction, poverty, lonliness and lack of opportunities. These stories show the murkiness and struggle that is reality to many in Canada. Loss and messiness are consistent themes throughout.
I love that this book is influenced by Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Growing up in BC I have seen it several times and appreciated that the author and publisher are giving thoes lives and stories a place. These characters hit so hard, their ever reaching for more, for improvement in a social and political climate that is geared against them. It pulled so much emotion and compassion from me.
Gray-Cosgrove does a fantastic job proving there is so much feeling in the darkness, there is empathy and hope in the dark, desire and humor but above all these stories show the tenderness life can possess the beauty and brutality of getting to live. I emplor your to check this book out. Nothing I say can capture this one, its truly a breathtaking read.
Thank you so much to the publisher for sending me this book opinions are my own.
For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
A fantastic debut! Nowadays and Lonlier consists of 22 stories that are not light and easy. These characters are struggling with addiction, poverty, lonliness and lack of opportunities. These stories show the murkiness and struggle that is reality to many in Canada. Loss and messiness are consistent themes throughout.
I love that this book is influenced by Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Growing up in BC I have seen it several times and appreciated that the author and publisher are giving thoes lives and stories a place. These characters hit so hard, their ever reaching for more, for improvement in a social and political climate that is geared against them. It pulled so much emotion and compassion from me.
Gray-Cosgrove does a fantastic job proving there is so much feeling in the darkness, there is empathy and hope in the dark, desire and humor but above all these stories show the tenderness life can possess the beauty and brutality of getting to live. I emplor your to check this book out. Nothing I say can capture this one, its truly a breathtaking read.
Thank you so much to the publisher for sending me this book opinions are my own.
For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong