All of the stories here are boldly told and hum with tension. In “Feast,” she explores a woman’s alienation and grief following a miscarriage “The Hearts of Our Enemies” details a “cold war” between a shamed mother and her teenage daughter “Outside the Raft” dives deep into the darkness latent in the human heart. Moniz writes about family, marriage, class, loss, and race with wisdom and intensity, and her stories are rife with vivid images and sentences that can stand strikingly alone. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, just published this week from Grove Atlantic, but you might’ve already encountered her work in the Paris Review, Tin House, One Story, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere.
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