2016 by Sarah Hesketh Kristine Ong Muslim Novel metaphors and lucid images

Novel metaphors and lucid images whirl through tales that put life in perspective

the weight of the personal-present

published by Paragon Press (1994)

its peculiar commitments

2016 by Sarah Hesketh Kristine Ong Muslim Novel metaphors and lucid imagesPublished 3rd April 2025. With great craft and care, Sarah Hesketh has assembled a chorus of ordinary voices to tell the story of a year. If Wordsworth thought that poetry was best found in the overflow of "powerful feelings", this book acts as a kind of fever chart for our collective emotions in 2016. Encompassing the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the deaths of Jo Cox, David Bowie and Carrie Fisher as well as the death of Hesketh's own