I think it's a battle between two heavy hitters. I think it's a battle between two.
Talking Story 22.5K subscribers · Mar 3, 2025
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I just had the best time with it. I It's going to be up for my book of the month.
It has amazing themes. It has amazing characters. The dialogue not only attaches itself to each individual character with a different flow, but it actually gives you a sense of time and place because you will hear these rhythms of Massachusetts as they're talking.
And it's so interesting because one of our reads in the past on Quilluminati was William Kent Krueger's Ordinary Grace and we all really enjoyed that.
I mean, it's it's such a dichotomy the language which is beautiful, but the brutality is like oh my This is just unflinching. Like she does not shy away from where she goes with this ending.




