Tag Archives: Kirsty Gunn

This Place You Return To Is Home

“Like Raymond Carver, she sketches scenes from the lives of ordinary, unhappy people with thin but vivid strokes that make the reader pause and…

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Rain

“[An] exquisitely written first novel. . . . [Gunn’s] language is pitch-perfect; on almost every page, she expresses familiar feelings in ways that are…

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The Keepsake

“To crack open Kirsty Gunn’s second novel is to fumble unwittingly with the lid of Pandora’s box. . . . Its figures of speech, lovely on the page, turn unholy once they’ve taken on life . . . [but] go ahead, open it, it’s worth the risk.” –The New York…

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