May 31, 2025 The jagged ridges in the green mountains above Spruce Pine look strange at first, as if they were scratched into the surface by giant claws.
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Mike Belleme,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
Especially when exploring all the jagged edges can be as delicious as it has been executed in Sirens.
These include infidelities, unspoken longings, and thorny questions of land inheritance.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
In his first inaugural address in 1933, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid out a political axiom that would come to shrewdly diagnose America's thorny brand of insularity.
Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment.
—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
Keller resists going too quirky with his characters, locating humor instead in the sometimes prickly, often playful exchanges between them, and pathos in their genuine care and concern for one another.
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