Beautiful reviews of The Geography of First Kisses to share!
With thanks to Chris Harding Thornton for her review in The Colorado Review/Center for Literary Publishing, in which she writes: “Absence, loss, disappearance—these things haunt us, and the stories in The Geography of First Kisses do, too. But even when they’re heart-wrenching, they’re never maudlin. The stories are filled with delight, beauty, and amazement.”
Gratitude as well to BettyJoyce Nash for her review in the Southern Review of Books. “In the title story Davidson poses the question: ‘Why is there no such thing as north by south or east by west? Why does direction turn only slightly, instead of leaning full tilt into another place, another time, another anything?’ These stories do lean, full-tilt, into time and space, excavating complex forms of love, loss, and longing, starting with the title story’s unnamed narrator, who is ‘sweet sixteen and never been,’ covering compass points, longing for a North Star or a magnetic pole, ‘to show me where I’d landed.’”