Poet Quan Barry’s strangely luminous dark novel channels the history of Vietnam through the experience of a woman who hears the dead. I talked about it as a reflection on the post-apocalyptic present at The Millions and reviewed it in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Ellen Akins is the author of the novels Home Movie, Little Woman, Public Life, and Hometown Brew, and the short story collection World Like a Knife. She has published short stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, and The Southwest Review, which (the last two) awarded her their biennial short fiction awards. Read more