Pinal County Libraries have chosen An Unexpected Guest for their Best Books of 2012 top-ten “Fantastic Fiction” list. To see the whole list, look here…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest is the 2012 Best Contemporary Fiction title according to the Christian Manifesto…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest is a 2012 Literary Favorite on Eric Forbes’s Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books, and one of three nominees for Best Contemporary Fiction of 2012 at The Christian Manifesto. For links, see here and here…(Read More)
Check out the “Reading Group Guide” page of this website for a revised and greatly expanded selection of suggested questions. An Unexpected Guest offers a lot to talk about! To get there directly, look here.  …(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest is out in Russia. With a dreamy, dramatic Russian jacket cover – and even a Russian twist to the author’s first name! To see, look here…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest was a “Pick of the Week” on Book Case TV, season 2, episode 2, broadcast on NYC Life Channel 25 and now available on VOD. Host Frederic Colier calls the book, “a great novel from first-time author Anne Korkeakivi.” To see the review in full, look here (around 24 minutes in…(Read More)
Known in the US as The Lonely Girl, the second volume in Edna O’Brien’s Country Girl trilogy created quite a scandal when it came out in 1962. (In 1964, it was made into a film starring Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch, and Lynn Redgrave.) No longer so shocking, the story of a young Irish…(Read More)
An aging High Court judge in Dublin, while presiding over a landmark case involving a young girl whose had an abortion, reveals to the reader the repressed difficult childhood that led him to an adult life of personal estrangement. Colm Toíbín’s second novel (1992): slow, quiet, astonishing…(Read More)
Author Louise Dean takes up an audacious challenge in this 2005 novel: using two rotating narrators, one the mother of an imprisoned son in the Maze and the other as a prison guard there, to see The Troubles from either side of the struggle…(Read More)
In the Maplewood Patch, author Marina Budhos said, “An Unexpected Guest is a patient book, impressively skillful for a first novel as Korkeakivi balances the artful arrangement of domestic life with the eruptive energy of past youthful passions, and the tension of present-day political fears. And, to my surprise, about a third of the…(Read More)
