And yet, I think it's actually helping me realize things I should have realized on my own long ago. Though it is lesbian fiction, it's generalized enough that it applies to anyone who has ever been captivated and captured by love.
| Beautiful and heartbreaking, Little Whispers pulled me down with its sadness, but then would bring me back up with its promise of hope and the idea that love comes in many forms and can still be love even when it's not returned. I often highlight in my Kindle, but never so much as this time around. Karen Campbell's writing is stark and painful and lovely and I found it be comforting and unnerving to recognize so much in her wonderful stories. "I don't like the silence at night, in my blackened room. It makes me feel like a tree on its own. Trees should grow together, like a big family, shading and protecting each other." "...so I turned my music up louder and I drowned the screams in my mind. Music can override every misery." Having first read her work in L is For, I am super glad to have read Little Whispers and will definitely seek out more of her fiction. |
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