To Make a Home
“Why don’t you decorate? You could do so much with this space.” It was an iteration I had come to expect when having visitors to the many homes I’d lived in, this time from the boy visiting me at the …
‘A Word That Cuts’: Sarah Henstra On Rape Culture
“The trouble with myth is that it shirks blame.” With these words we’re thrust into Sarah Henstra’s The Red Word, a nineties campus novel intent on doing the opposite of shirking blame: raising the curtain on the 21st-century mythology surrounding …
Pre-Teens, Privilege
For a rookie novelist writing a coming-of-age narrative set against the racial unrest of a 1990s’ Bostonian backdrop, Green has an apt title.…