This review of This Close by Sarah Norris is one of my favorites. The ending: “The experience of visiting these characters is comparable to opening the twelve small windows of an advent calendar only to find, one after the other, that the emotional resonance of peering into the scenes is so familiar it’s startling. These people are strangers, yet we know them; their grasping for connection, to themselves and to one another, is specific and personal. The house they live in could be your own house—it’s that close.” Click to read the whole review.
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