Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski, translated from German by Jen Calleja (Los Angeles: Unnamed Press, September 21, 2021; 223 pp.; $26.00 hardback; ISBN 9781951213350). Originally published 2019 in German as Milchzähne by Blumenbar (an imprint of…
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Exploring Grief and Space-Time
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Almond in the Apricot by Sara Goudarzi (Dallas: Deep Vellum Books, February 15, 2022; 252 pp.; $22.00 hardcover; also available as ebook; ISBN 9781646051090). “Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in the…
A Psychological Journey of Self-Discovery
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon, translated by Natasha Lehrer (New York: New Vessel Press, January 11, 2022; 256 pp.; $17.95 paperback, $12.95 ebook; ISBN 9781939931986). “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”…
Anthropomorphizing Nature
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, November 2, 2021; 368 pp.; $27.00 hardcover, $18.90 ebook; ISBN 9781635578591). First published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK, 2021. “Love is…
Four Ruminations on Freedom
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, September 7, 2021; 288 pages; $27.00; ISBN 978-1-64445-062-8 hardcover). “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no…
A Heuristic Tragicomedy
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad, translated by Sverre Lyngstad (New York: New Directions, June 1, 2021; 224 pages; $16.95; ISBN 9780811228268 paperback). First published in Norwegian as Ellevte roman, bok atten by Oktober in…
A Modern Parable Explores Prejudice
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa, translated by Megan McDowell (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, May 18, 2021; 140 pages; $14.95; ISBN: 978-1-948830-39-3 paperback; also available as ebook, $9.95). Appeared originally in Spanish as Cara de pan…
Sharing Stories to Heal
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Begin by Telling: Essais Series No. 11 by Meg Remy, illustrated by Logan T. Sibrel (Toronto: Book*hug Press, April 21, 2021; 96 pages; $20.00; ISBN: 9781771666633 paperback; also available as pdf or epub, $14.99 each). “You…
Visual Storytelling and Grief
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector (Seattle: Fantagraphics, March 23, 2021; 216 pages; $29.99; ISBN 9781683964049 hardback). “To be, or not to be: that is the question….” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act III, Scene I) Artist…
What It Means to be Human
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, March 2, 2021; 320 pages; $28.00; ISBN: 9780593318171 hardcover; also available in ebook, audiobook, and large-print formats). Published in the UK by…
Magical Realism for the Current Reality
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Prayer for the Living: Stories by Ben Okri (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, February 2, 2021; 216 pages; $24.95; ISBNs: 978-1-61775-863-8 hardcover, 978-1-61775-874-4 ebook). Originally published by Head of Zeus in London, October 2019. “We live in…
To Fish at Sea
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Dark, Salt, Clear: The Life of a Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, December 1, 2020; 336 pages; $27.00; hardcover ISBN 9781635576153). First published in the UK (London: Bloomsbury, February 4, 2020;…