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A review by teri_b
Not So Stories by Joseph Elliott-Coleman, Adiwijaya Iskandar
5.0
After having checked on the stories written by Kipling that prompted this collection of short stories, I finally dove into these stories, all 14 of them written by authors of colour.
I found an amazing bunch of stories that have been written in reaction to the stories, Kipling wrote more than a hundred years ago. You do not have to go back to them in order to enjoy this story collection by itself.
For me it was freeing to see what the authors wrote about, the topic of the mother that was brought in, but then also going beyond and writing about what matters nowadays in the 21st century with its globalisation.
In all of the stories you can also find the excitement and the joy of the respective author to tell a story. And telling stories is a lot what life is about, is it not?
I got this book as an eARC for its 2020 publication from the publisher via Netgalley in return of an honest review.
I found an amazing bunch of stories that have been written in reaction to the stories, Kipling wrote more than a hundred years ago. You do not have to go back to them in order to enjoy this story collection by itself.
For me it was freeing to see what the authors wrote about, the topic of the mother that was brought in, but then also going beyond and writing about what matters nowadays in the 21st century with its globalisation.
In all of the stories you can also find the excitement and the joy of the respective author to tell a story. And telling stories is a lot what life is about, is it not?
I got this book as an eARC for its 2020 publication from the publisher via Netgalley in return of an honest review.