Review of Trisha Ready's Nobuko in The Stranger
I recently reviewed Trisha Ready’s novel Nobuko in The Stranger.
Ready has created a work that is accessible in its language and engaging in its vignette-driven storytelling, yet also richly layered for those who listen to its syntax. Nobuko is an invitation to consider the smallest units of writing: the choice of a period or a conjunction, the decision to repeat a word. In this way, Ready’s book joins a literary tradition that spans Stein to Kawakami, affirming that style and morality, form and feeling, are deeply intertwined. A quiet revelation of a novel, Nobuko asks us to find meaning not in high drama, but in the spaces between the words.
– Read the full review in The Stranger