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- The Wake, single work short story
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Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow,
single work
review
— Review of Cold Enough for Snow 2022 single work novel ;'The narrator of Cold Enough for Snow is visiting Japan with her mother. “We did not live in the same city anymore, and had never really been away together as adults,” she writes, “but I was beginning to feel that it was important, for reasons I could not yet name.” Together, they explore museums and galleries, restaurants and bookshops, a cemetery, a bathhouse and a church, each place carefully chosen by the daughter “for what [her mother] might like to see”.' (Introduction)
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Vanessa Len Only a Monster,
single work
review
— Review of Only a Monster 2022 single work novel ;'In Vanessa Len’s debut YA fantasy Only a Monster we meet Joan Chang-Hunt, who is staying with her quirky London relatives for the summer. She volunteers at a historical museum and is excited about her first date with a fellow volunteer. Joan’s world turns upside down when she discovers that what her grandmother has always told her is in fact true: she is a monster.' (Introduction)