"This elegant novel about an actress happily married to an academic is split in half, offering two different narratives about the way a young man might come between the couple. It's set amid the bohemian circles of intellectual and creative Manhattan, and Traci Kato-Kiriyama's quiet performance allows the dread underlying the seemingly civilized and cultured relationships in the novel to build with a subtle inexorability."
"The essence of this novel by a modern master of elevated horror is a revenge story in which a Native American turned vampire targets the perpetrators of a historical event, the 1870 massacre of 200 unarmed women and children of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. The narrative is as nested as Wuthering Heights: The vampire's confession is recorded in the journal of a white preacher, which"
An elegant novel follows an actress married to an academic and uses two narratives to show how a young man disrupts their relationship. Set in bohemian Manhattan, Traci Kato-Kiriyama's quiet narration builds dread with subtle inexorability. A revenge novel depicts a Native American turned vampire targeting perpetrators of the 1870 massacre of 200 unarmed Blackfeet women and children in Montana. The story is nested in a preacher's journal and a descendant academic's framing, with three narrators differentiating modes and Shane Ghostkeeper voicing the Indigenous perspective. A whistleblower memoir, narrated by its author, traces a shift from human-rights diplomat to Meta public-policy director, highlighting corporate self-interest and generational change.
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