Wounds – Reads A Lot

Ancient Lands and New Wounds in the “Cash Murder Mystery Series” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsOctober 11, 2022 by Marcie McCauley

[ad_1] Marcie Rendon’s mystery novels simultaneously inform and entertain readers, presenting current Native American issues through her heroine’s efforts to solve crimes perpetrated against society’s more vulnerable members in the early 1970s. When the Cash Blackburn series’ third volume opens, a body surfaces in the Red River Valley’s meltwater; the spring floodwaters on this North … Read more

Wounds, Throbs, and Cures in “Chilean Poet” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsFebruary 22, 2022 by Marek Makowski

[ad_1] Some people live without needing literature. They summer in vacation homes, host parties, marry sweethearts with perfect smiles, bear children who will become not followers but influencers, and pass peacefully in their sleep with smooth faces. The rest of us read books. We chase romance at bonfires and dive bars, trudge through blizzards for … Read more

Past Traumas and Wounds of the Present in “Nervous System” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMay 28, 2021 by Teddy Burnette

[ad_1] Trauma likes to stick around. It likes to burrow its way under our skin and nestle there, getting comfortable without your knowing—or maybe you do know, maybe you can feel it setting its claws into you and taking hold. Either way, the trauma is there to stay, not rearing its head or making itself … Read more

The Possibility of Change and Movement in “The Five Wounds” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 13, 2021 by Michael Welch

[ad_1] I was first introduced to Kirstin Valdez Quade’s writing in a graduate workshop, when the professor led a discussion on the short story “Nemecia,” from her debut collection Night at the Fiestas. Since then, I return to this story whenever I reach the distinct point of writer’s block where I need to remind myself … Read more