Mike Broida‘s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and TheRumpus.net. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2012 and currently works for an independent school in Boston.
Spring 2015
The Art of Losing: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The opening of Celeste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, is an inversion of the classic “who-dunnit?” From the opening line Ng reveals that Lydia Lee’s death was a suicide, if an unlikely one, which leaves us instead to ask, “why?”