A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Dec 22, 2019
3 minutes
Every year is a great year for reading; 2019 was no exception.
One of my favorites this year was Helen Phillips’s The Need—part parenting book, part horror, part thriller, part literary fiction—actually none of these descriptors do it justice; narratively inventive in a Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation way, it requires close reading, with a big and tender and surprising payoff at the end.
’s literary thriller, , put the literary back into literary
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