Shining Sea is on the “Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2016 Book Preview” at the Millions. “A meditation on family, the long shadow of war over generations, and myth-making.” To see the rest, look here…(Read More)
Bustle calls Shining Sea one of the “12 Travel Books That Will Transport You This Summer, Even If You’re Stuck In The Office… A gut-wrenching story about war, family, and the persistence of memory, Shining Sea will take you all over the globe without so much as leaving your reading chair.” To see…(Read More)
“How do we as individuals reconcile the war experiences of our family members with our own, as combatants or civilians? How deeply and permanently does war permeate society, even far—geographically and temporally—from the front lines? And, ultimately, what can we learn from it?” In a fourth-of-July op-ed for TIME magazine…(Read More)
I wrote about past wars, my family, and the current presidential election for TIME magazine, for the Fourth of July weekend. To read the op-ed, look here…(Read More)
“In only two novels, Anne Korkeakivi has become one of my favorite writers.” Thank you, Read Her Like An Open Book! [Shining Sea] surprised me with its emotional punch… I cared about the key characters (and still do, as they wander around in my mind). The plot is compelling, with mysteries at the heart of…(Read More)
For “Twelve Great Authors Pick Their Essential American Book,” TIME magazine asked me to name one book by an American author everyone should read. I was honored to be asked, but it was hard to settle on only one! I chose this…(Read More)
In his summer fiction preview, book blogger Bill Wolfe (Read Her Like An Open Book) calls Shining Sea one of the fourteen books coming out in July and August that readers won’t want to miss. “[Korkeakivi] writes beautifully and with compassion and insight into the relationships and events that shape our lives.” To read…(Read More)
A Free Life
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Ha Jin, who left China for the United States in his late twenties, is easily one of my favorite contemporary writers. A Free Life, published in 2007 and his first novel set in America, follows a Chinese poet in graduate school in Boston and his family, as they struggle to make a permanent home for…(Read More)
Brooklyn
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How lovely this quiet, feeling novel by Colm Tóibín, published in 2009 and listed for many major prizes, about a young Irish emigrée from a jobless Ireland in the 1950s to an exciting but more complex life in the U.S. And how perceptive in its exploration of torn allegiances and the…(Read More)
My Ántonia
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Willa Cather’s 1918 chronicle of the relationship between an orphaned youth from Virginia and the spirited, bright-eyed daughter of Bohemian immigrants in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century has always occupied a special place in my heart. I am myself the descendant of Bohemian (Czech) pioneers in Nebraska. But, really, everything…(Read More)
