I love the Storybooks series from New Directions. The idea of a short book for adults with a beautiful, large, easy-to-read font, and a gorgeous, shiny cover, is absolute genius. The collection is also perfectly curated — all the coolest authors; deliciously absorbing stories. I want them all.
So it was a perfect Christmas treat to curl up on a comfy chair in my cozy robe and read this cover-to-cover while my child and his father made pancakes. I loved Mrs Caliban, and was accordingly very excited to read this, but honestly, it surpassed my hopes and expectations — it was such a knockout. I don’t want to give anything away, because really, the less you know about it, the better, so I’ll just say that it’s a really brilliant meditation on domestic labor and marital life and love. I was especially delighted by the call-back to a particularly key moment in a very famous work of literature, one that I teach as a dilemma quite frequently, but Ingalls takes it in the exact opposite direction, with hilarious results.
Kasia Reads 