There’s a wonderful review of This is How in the New York Times, written by novelist, poet, and literary critic Erica Wagner
The full review can be read here
Here’s an extract:
She makes it look so simple, with her words of one syllable, with a style almost entirely devoid of affect; but there is nothing simplistic about her achievement. This Is How is an unflinching, absorbing, morally complex portrait of one life gone suddenly and terribly awry.
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This Is How is an eerie, commanding book. It is a novel about crime, though not a crime novel; it has an almost stately pace and yet it’s thrilling. It is, most important, a moving and compassionate portrait of a human being who is fully himself and yet stands for all of us, for what we fear, or fear to hope.
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