Katya Adaui: Here Be Icebergs [2022] paperback BOOKT creating self and culture as

creating self and culture as you go along - At Certain Points We Touch captures this fleeting

In Apt Pupil a golden schoolboy entices an old man with a past to join in a dreadful union

and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners

WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

she shows how understanding bittersweetness will allow us

Katya Adaui: Here Be Icebergs [2022] paperback BOOKT creating self and culture asThe mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet