Bookworm, no. 92
Selena Mercuri reviews Emma Donoghue’s “The Paris Express.” Andrea Sakiyama Kennedy on Karen M. Inouye’s “Mary Kitagawa.” Poetry by George Elliott Clarke. Inside the May issue.
Fast and Furious
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
HarperAvenue
288 pages, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook
Emma Donoghue’s The Paris Express is a novel in motion, propelled by fluid shifts in opposing perspectives and by the setting, a train that derailed in Montparnasse in 1895. Engine 721 is a sentient observer of its passengers and of a society hurtling tow…
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