Welcome to April, and another book review roundup from the Literature section!
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Welcome to February, and the Literature section’s first Book Review Roundup!
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Books are often a place of escapism, but when you find a book that makes you feel hopeful and inspired to live in the real world… that’s when you know you have found a good book.
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The funny thing about memory is the act of remembering itself – when we flex these muscles it can be fractured, fraught with double meanings and inconsistencies. Sifting through it is a challenge, and few do it as deftly as Jeff Young in his Costa Prize shortlisted memoir, ‘Ghost Town’.
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Leaving Las Vegas forces the reader to live vicariously through its two main characters and accept their realities, not the realities imposed on them. The reader slips alternately between Sera, a seasoned sex worker on the streets of Vegas, and booze-addicted Ben, who flees the limitations of Los Angeles to pursue his quest for total inebriation in a city that can provide the life without limitations he has come to need.
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