Taylor Thornburg‘s Agathe, 6:00 p.m. to 7:27 has had a good first six months since its release mid-year. He has been promoting the book extensively in Chicago and helping to build the literary community there by the amount of events he has helped host, as much as on a weekly basis.
The L’Esprit Literary Review published a wonderful review of Taylor’s book recently called: Memories and Imagined Futures, written by Eliza Marley.
“The prose is densely packed with worlds spun outward, reconstituting memories and imagining futures. The compression of memory works as the engine of the novel, demonstrating the ways grief and introspection can dilate time,” writes Marley. “Agathe produces a close encounter with raw grief. The emotional charge of Agathe’s thinking takes the reader back in time through snippets of life before her relationship, their early days, and their final days through an associative drive.”
Eliza Marley is the author of the book You Shouldn’t Worry About the Frogs (Querencia Press 2023). Her work has been featured in Red Ogre Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine, and Stoneboat Journal among others. Eliza is a PhD student in Chicago where she studies fiction, folklore, and ghost stories.
Thank you to Eliza and L’Esprit for the review!
