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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
“We all lived in an unwalled city, that was it. I saw lines scored across the map of Ireland; carved all over the globe. Train tracks, roads, shipping channels, a web of human traffic that connected all all nations into one great suffer body.” This is the third novel I’ve read by Emma Donoghue…
1910s, 1918 influenza, 1st pov, 20th century, abuse, Adult, Dublin, Emma Donoghue, f/f, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, HOSPITAL, illness, IRELAND, IRISH AUTHOR, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, LITERARY FICTION, mental health, motherhood, netgalley, no quotations marks, Poverty, pregnancy, published in 2020, queer, read in 2020, sapphic, SEXUALITY, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, social issues, The Pull of the Stars, tragedy, trauma, war, war related ptsd, wwi -
Akin by Emma Donoghue — book review
“He and this boy were quite alien to each other, he decide. Yet, in an odd way, akin.” Akin tells the touching story of Noah Selvaggio, a retired seventy-nine year old chemistry professor, and his eleven year old great-nephew, Michael Young. Noah is a widower who has few remaining connections in the world and his fairly…
3rd pov, 4 STARS, Adult, ageing, Akin, bittersweet, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, Contemporary, Emma Donoghue, family, female authors, FRANCE, GRIEF, history, Irish Canadian author, LGBTQ+ Author, LITERARY FICTION, MEMORY, MYSTERY, netgalley, NEW YORK, Nice, nostalgic reads, PHOTOGRAPHY, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, social issues, travel, WWII
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