Campbell Andrews’s Reviews > Love and Other Consolation Prizes > Status Update

it’s much better on the first decade of the 20th century than the seventh

“walks around Kerry Park”

yes, that strip of sidewalk at the top of the hill...

as one Seattle native to another, I should be more forgiving... but while we’re at it, you can’t see the base of Queen Anne from the International district— even before I-5.

“it’s about all the marginalized people who never get their stories told properly.”

Bravo! How woke a woman!

In 1962.

I fear this is turning into an exemplar of historical fiction whose mores are properly aligned with the present.

“We all have things we don’t talk about... more often than not, those are the things that make us who we are.”

Like paying utility bills, driving the kids to school, taking a dump?

I call bullshit

warning! 8 endorsements on the back cover— all by women, the first whose Nightingale was one of the worst I’ve encountered...