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Jul 18, 2024 | 
steamboatmagazine.com | Tea Obreht |Shelley Read
(Ben Fountain is a featured author at this year’s Literary Sojourn.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Tea Obreht
There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside. The Morningside was once the jewel of Island City. But now the luxury high-rise is crumbling and Island City is half-underwater. The building's newest resident is an eleven-year-old girl, Silvia. Having arrived with only her mother, who is stubbornly secretive, Silvia knows little about the place they left behind.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere |Tea Obreht
The Morningside by Téa ObrehtThe Morningside by Téa Obreht is set in a post-climate change near-future in a partial drowned city called Island City (maybe Manhattan?) that is accepting refugees to repopulate the city with promises of newly constructed/renovated homes for those who come to work. The novel is a mostly successful mix of genres, a sort of magical realist/cli-fi Harriet the Spy if Harriet were also a refugee.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Tea Obreht
Don’t Mention the Program By Weidenfeld & Nicolson 304pp £20 Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article For People Who Devour Books...
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
orlandosentinel.com | Tea Obreht
Jenny Shank | (TNS) Star TribuneOnce upon a future time, in a world of coastal inundation and raging wildfires, a refugee girl named Silvia and her mother come to live in the Morningside. A dilapidated high-rise in the remnants of a sunken metropolis, Island City, it’s where they meet Ena, their only surviving relative from “Back Home.” Ena hints that the woman who occupies the penthouse with her enormous black dogs has the power to create shapeshifters.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Tea Obreht |Jenny Shank
Once upon a future time, in a world of coastal inundation and raging wildfires, a refugee girl named Silvia and her mother come to live in the Morningside. A dilapidated high-rise in the remnants of a sunken metropolis, Island City, it's where they meet Ena, their only surviving relative from "Back Home." Ena hints that the woman who occupies the penthouse with her enormous black dogs has the power to create shapeshifters.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Tea Obreht
In imagining the near future, it is easy to get bogged down in the details. Political upheavals and climate disasters forcing global migrations, technical failures, scarcity and extinctions are just a few of the not-so-fantastical areas explored in dystopian and speculative fiction. Téa Obreht imagines all of these in her latest novel, THE MORNINGSIDE.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Tea Obreht |Jennifer Ryan |Rowan Beaird |Colin Barrett
This week, we review Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls, which considers "the nesting-doll lives of three generations" of Chinese American women and "brings into clear focus the ever-shifting complexities of mother-daughter relationships"; as well as Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, who "skillfully sifts through the past, present, and the unraveling future, drawing from the different branches of her identity as a punk, queer Indigenous woman." Plus, The First State of...
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Tea Obreht
Once upon a future time, in a world of coastal inundation and raging wildfires, a refugee girl named Silvia and her mother come to live in the Morningside. A dilapidated high-rise in the remnants of a sunken metropolis, Island City, it's where they meet Ena, their only surviving relative from "Back Home." Ena hints that the woman who occupies the penthouse with her enormous black dogs has the power to create shapeshifters.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Tea Obreht
This near-future dystopian novel is set in a time of ecological disaster in the mostly underwater community of Island City. Carlotta Brentan portrays the cast of characters smartly by subtly shifting tone, cadence, and timbre. She smoothly portrays the protagonist, who begins as a gangly 11-year-old named Sylvia. Brentan contrasts Sylvia's size and temperament with those of her secretive and diminutive Eastern European-sounding mother.
