REVIEW
How We Disappear by Tara Lynn Masih
Novella & Stories
Strangely intriguing almost flow of consciousness stories that explore and give insight into a variety of lives. Well written and thought provoking…I will ponder some of the stories in this collection for longer than a moment. Most are dark and rather grim, some left me scratching my head trying to figure out if there was a message and if so…what it was, and most left me sad and wishing that the lives of those in the short glimpse I saw could have had better lives other than the ones I was given a glimpse of.
I think my favorite short story was DELIGHT because it seemed to have more than a bit of hope and left me thinking of possibilities…positive possibilities for a young girl that otherwise might not have had them. I can honestly say that I am glad I have not experienced what the characters in these stories have…or at least not as darkly.
Thank you to NetGalley and Press 53 for the ARC – This is my honest review.
3-4 Stars
BLURB
A MILLIONS MOST ANTICIPATED FALL SELECTION In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers readers transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes. Described as “masterful” and as “striking and resonant” (Publishers Weekly), Masih’s fiction, crossing boundaries between historical and contemporary, sparks with awareness that nothing and no one is ever gone for good—and that the wilderness is never quite behind us. A virtuoso collection of stories that spin around an axis of loss and rediscovery.
