Every trauma survivor must become an autodidact of their own pain. By telling Taylia’s whole truth in Like a Bird, rather than flattening her into a more marketable heroine, Róisín locates Taylia’s experience within the body rather than as a response to the catalytic forces of plot.
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Barrelhouse Reviews: We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett
About six weeks ago, the writer David Shields told a small audience, “Something in us craves apocalypse.” That quote certainly applies to Adam Nemett’s debut novel, We Can Save Us All, in which the young characters that populate it cope with a series of approaching catastrophes.
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