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“How do you survive the unendurable? Marro’s gorgeous debut is about war, grief, guilt, and grappling with the truths you don’t expect, and finally taking the risk and acknowledging the ones that you do. Moving and full of heart.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You
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Elizabeth Marro is the author of the novel CASUALTIES (Berkley 2016), the story of a successful defense industry executive who must face the consequences of her choices when her son returns from war altered in ways neither of them expected.
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“… this powerful first novel will leave the reader reflecting for days.” – Library Journal
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If a book club married a writers group, Spark would be their child. Here is where writers and readers come together to find and share “daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark” discovered as we read, write, and reach for connection.
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I had never heard of Barbara Newhall Follett until I read this article by Daniel Mills in the LA Review of Books but now I can’t stop thinking about her.
I didn’t think much about art as I slaved away on Casualties. I did worry plenty plenty about being published.
I wanted to be chosen.
A new book, an intriguing magazine, and my ex mother-in-law
The whole process got me thinking about names – the importance we give to them and the outright hubris it takes to impose a name on another living being.
Elroy is the kind of man who talks about his breaking-entering-and-panty-sniffing days with the same unblinking stare and flattened affect as he talks about his mother’s murder. It’s unnerving. Yet…
“What does it feel like to kiss romantically, to want to go to bed with a man?” I tried to answer the best way I could. I know it wasn’t enough. It probably could never be enough. Her question, though, was a gift. Nadia got me to step outside of my comfort zone and dig deep, to look with new eyes at love — and how to try to explain how an orgasm felt to a woman who had never had one.
