Martin Aitken

Jul 4, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Karl Ove Knausgaard |Martin Aitken |Kristin Hannah |Paula Hawkins

Typically contemplative for Knausgaard, but unusually propulsive as well. Knausgaard delves deeper into the lives of Norwegians affected by the emergence of a new heavenly body. This novel is a continuation of the series launched with The Morning Star (2021) and The Wolves of Eternity (2023). Though perhaps “remix” is a better term: The book covers many of the same incidents in the previous novels, but from different characters’ perspectives.

Apr 16, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Martin Aitken |Kristin Hannah

A welcome corrective to romanticized notions of mental illness, written with compassion and authenticity. In her debut novel, Danish writer Gråbøl paints a portrait of a young woman living in state-sponsored housing in Copenhagen struggling with both mental illness and its treatments. Before the relative independence of the residential facility, our narrator was locked in the psychiatric ward of a hospital and subjected to repeated electroconvulsive therapy.