The Art of Dialogue
Dialogue isn’t just about spoken words. What the characters do with their hands and bodies as they speak or while the other person is speaking is just as important as the speech itself.
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Author: Elizabeth Spencer
You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sittenfeld’s characters are flawed but sympathetic, and readers who feel similarly misunderstood will delight in the humorously awkward situations the characters get into – and must find their way out of.
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
In 2018, as an international debate over the fate of refugees and the world’s responsibility to them unfolds, Exit West reminds us that “everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
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Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Perhaps in the end it is our connections with other people, both sexual and platonic, that are most important in our lives.
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Sing, UnBuried, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is never didactic in her writing; the events she depicts speak for themselves.
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