Dionne Irving's "The Islands"
Author Dionne Irving joins Eric Newman to talk about her debut story collection, THE ISLANDS. Moving across the United States, Jamaica, England, and France, the collection explores its female characters' experience of diasporic dislocation, that feeling of never quite fitting into the rhythms of either their adopted culture or their culture of origin. Dionne's prose reveals origin—that foundational and orienting sense of where one is "from"—as an eternally unsettled question for these female protagonists, troubling the ways in which they find or make a home for themselves and the relationships they form with others.
Also, Peter Brooks, author of Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative, returns to recommend The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste as well as The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier.
