10 Books to Read When You Want To Feel Better About Your Dysfunctional Family – Chicago Review of Books

10 Books to Read When You Want To Feel Better About Your Dysfunctional Family – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] If your fondest holiday memories also involve hiding in the bathroom (or closet, or floorboard, or passenger seat of your cool older cousin’s car) to get a moment’s peace from your [insert adjective] family, you’re probably already sold on a distraction. Books can’t yell at you! Or guilt you! Or punish you! Unless they … Read more

Conspiracies and Madness in “You Feel It Just Below the Ribs” – Chicago Review of Books

Conspiracies and Madness in “You Feel It Just Below the Ribs” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The world of You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is all apocalypse and debris, bare shambles coagulating into a familiar dystopian world order. The novel is marked as an “alternate history” of the early twentieth century, except that it doesn’t feel like one. The timelines are certainly murky, the laws are new, the … Read more