{"id":3436,"date":"2020-06-28T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2020-06-28T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:36:29","slug":"kaliko-on-the-shoals-a-novel-by-emma-renault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"Kaliko on the Shoals: A Novel by Emma Renault"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Created<\/p>\n

An intriguing read\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The engrossing latest by Renault follows the story of a young woman struggling with past trauma, grief, and identity issue. Unable to deal with her past issues, eighteen-year-old Kaliko drops out of college and moves back to her home town. Two years later, she is still struggling with her inner scars. The only silver lining of hope for Kaliko is her girlfriends Luna\u2019s weekend visits, but when the mysterious Ofelia enters Kaliko\u2019s life as a friend, things seem to look up. Renault\u2019s writing has a lyrical, vague quality to it, and the narrative vacillates between Kaliko\u2019s inner thoughts, her interactions with Luna and Ophelia, and moments of their delicate love-making. The setting of hidden island and the subtlety with which Ranault handles Kaliko\u2019s trauma add both a heavy shade of magical realism and emotional depth to the story. Lovers of magical realism and literary fiction will find it easy to fall in love with Kaliko\u2019s story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kaliko on the Shoals: A Novel <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

by Emma Renault<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Buy now<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking Glass Heart Books <\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

ISBN 9781734445107<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Expected pub date August 4, 2020 <\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Price $22.50 Paperback<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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An intriguing read\u2026 The engrossing latest by Renault follows the story of a young woman struggling with past trauma, grief, and identity issue. Unable to deal with her past issues, eighteen-year-old Kaliko drops out of college and moves back to her home town. Two years later, she is still struggling with her inner scars. The only silver lining of hope for Kaliko is her girlfriends Luna\u2019s weekend visits, but when the mysterious Ofelia enters Kaliko\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nKaliko on the Shoals: A Novel by Emma Renault #amreading #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #emmaranault #kalikoontheshoals #fiction #magicalrealism","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56739],"tags":[91,460,3328,178,1747,1136176,610903656,54306025,468374,1473,309,349],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-reviews","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-magical-realism","tag-reading","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-Tq","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}