A sliver of bright white flashes on a sketched, shifting black background, the camera points up at the sky from below. The sliver shuts, as if we blink, and the perspective shifts, now seen from above, an eye appears, then two, a young Black face, sketched in the darkness, brush strokes visible, now on a…
Author: Molly Lindberg
Book Review: Fear and Motherhood in The Heart Folds Early by Jill Christman
When an 18-week ultrasound revealed that her son had only developed half of his heart, Jill Christman did not know what to do. In her 2026 memoir, The Heart Folds Early, Christman unspools her ultimate decision to terminate the pregnancy, shedding light on the various heart-wrenching reasons a mother might choose not to carry a…
Book Review: Cancer and Caregiving in Heart the Lover by Lily King
In Heart the Lover, Lily King does the unimaginable: she crafts the perfect coming-of-age college love story, and then unravels and complicates it with a temporal jump into the future, a reunion sobered by time and cancer. Always a genius when it comes to capturing physical experiences on the page, King conjures cancer’s daily horrors…