Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, "Starling Days" (The Overlook Press, 2020)

New Books in Literature · Apr 21, 2020 · 27m

Mina completed a doctorate in Classics but can’t find a tenure track position. She earns money by teaching adjunct classes and tutoring in Latin. Mina’s husband, Oscar, who works for his distant father importing Japanese beer, hopes that leaving New York City for a few months will help with Mina’s depression. While they’re in London, she plans to work on a paper studying mythological women, only a few of whom survived. Mina wonders if she is one of the ones who is going to win the battle. Today I talked to Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Staring Days (The Overlook Press, 2020). She received…