Anushree Nande

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Anushree Nande |Em Setzer |M.C. Childs |Elle Engel

“Language is pitiable when weighed against experience,” wrote Adina Giorno, the protagonist of Marie-Helene Bertino’s quietly stunning Beautyland (2024); perhaps true, but equally true is the transportive weight of Bertino’s writing, which allows us brief, but vital, glimpses of what it’s like to be in the shoes of the people she brings into existence in her stories.