Posts Tagged: You Are One of Them

The Cleveland Plain Dealer Review

From The Plain Dealer: “The word ‘defect’ exemplifies our language’s weird elasticity. It’s the most active of verbs, connoting the choice to desert an old reality in favor of a new one. But as a noun its feel is passive, conjuring an object broken and robbed of worth.Both meanings are at play in Elliott Holt’s… Read more »

The Masters Review

Thanks to The Masters Review for this: “You Are One of Them takes the reader on an in-depth exploration of friendship, the reliability of memories, and the maturity it takes to reconcile these feelings to a satisfying end. Perhaps what Holt so skillfully portrays is that our memories and the truths within those memories are constantly… Read more »