Kimmy Beach

I wrote a review of this book for Prairie Fire: "The flyer for Kimmy Beach’s beautifully produced novella Nuala advertises a dystopian future troubled with love, possessiveness, and envy—it lives up to the pitch. But its subtitle, A Fable, points to more. The fable leaves the book open and inscrutable while simultaneously prodding readers to interpret it, as we tend to do with fables. We are perplexed yet meant to decipher that perplexity. This shift of responsibility to the reader seems to be its moral too. Nuala will trouble readers in the turmoil of CanLit’s dumpster fire, to borrow Alicia Elliott’s apt image…" http://www.prairiefire.ca/nuala-a-fable-by-kimmy-beach/… (mehr)