The Miami Book Fair is best of the best, and so was finding Shining Sea on A Latina Millenial’s Guide to the Miami Book Fair, alongside the likes of Trevor Noah, Colson Whitehead, Rita Dove, and Sabina Murray: “Shining Sea brings us into World War II, Woodstock, London’s dark dangerous nightlife, and more…(Read More)

I love this review of Shining Sea from the Historical Novel Society, and not only because it says “Anne Korkeakivi deserves an award for the realistic yet sensitive way she depicts this family’s lives” and calls the book “[m]emorable, lovely, and highly recommended historical fiction.” To see the rest of the review, look…(Read More)

I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded the Lois Kahn Wallace Writers Award for Shining Sea. Established in 1999 by the well-known, now-deceased literary agent and fellow New Yorker Lois Wallace, the award has been given five times before; past recipients include Erica Wagner and Marisa Silver. Such an honor…(Read More)

This “powerhouse list of fall 2016 fiction is for women, by women” — and includes Shining Sea: “If you’re looking for a big, beautiful family saga, look no further. But Korkeakivi (An Unexpected Guest) also examines how war and trauma are passed down and seen (or not seen, as the case may be) in generations…(Read More)

I love book groups and I love book pairings and everyone loves Homegoing, so I really loved seeing this idea on The Leaning Stack of Books’s review of Yaa Gyasi’s phenomenon novel: “Hello, book clubs! This would be an interesting book to pair with another inter-generational family story (for example, Anne Korkeakivi…(Read More)

The Rumpus says, “Shining Sea has an impressive scope, engaging prose, and compelling themes.” And Curled Up With a Good Book says, “Like stitches in a delicately laced quilt, Korkeakivi threads the complicated lives of Barbara and Francis through time, reflecting an intricate web of progress down through the decades.” To read more, look here…(Read More)

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly says of Shining Sea, “This absorbing generational story, which follows the Gannon family from WWII to the present, explores complex dynamics and captures the mood of different decades in America. Korkeakivi’s cogent insight into family relationships and the impact of personal loss, as well as how the times…(Read More)

The Wall Street Journal asked me to recommend five books on the legacy of war. I chose novels by John McGahern, Evie Wyld, Uzodinma Uweala, Patrick Modiano, and Kazuo Ishiguro. To see the full article, please look here…(Read More)