One More Year

Dude. This is the most Iowa Writers' Workshop book I have ever read, and when I was a little baby creative writing litfic zine self-publishing undergrad baby, I read a lot of Iowa Writers' Workshop books. It's like, Jesus, I know that that place produces different kinds of writers, but if you wanted......more

Stark stories of assimilation and identity that ask if we can ever be anything other than who we are. By this I mean that one's culture in inextricably tied to one's sense of self. When one's culture is stripped away, whether by choice or not, one begins to lose one's identity leaving a void into wh......more

Sana Krasikov, in her first published collection, brings a filling and current group of short stories, and in them, creates honest characters whose interactions cannot be forgotten. Dramatic and awful at times, desperate and sparse, the stories move through time as each day does. Eagerly, you turn t......more

How often do you read a book and think "Why haven't I heard about this book before?" This is exactly what I thought all the way through this book. I enjoyed it immensely! At the end of each short story, I wanted more. I wanted to know "What happens next?" and had the RATS! feeling that happens when......more

Jollain tasolla, tässä maailmanajassa, tuntui hitusen epämukavalle lukea tätä novellikokoelmaa. Viittaan nyt itäiseen naapuriimme, sen kansaan vaikkakin Sana Krasikov, itselleni aiemmin täysin tuntematon kirjailija, ei olekaan ihan itäisestä naapurista, mutta kovin itäisen naapurin oloisia tekstit o......more