In our first book review of the month, Jeannine Burgdorf dives into Louise Marburg’s new collection, You Have Reached Your Destination, winner of the 2022 Eastover Fiction Prize. “Unwilling to fit into tropes of passivity or vanity,” Burgdorf writes, “the women in Marburg’s stories cannot traverse the paths the world that is given to them. They go their own way.” Read the full review at the link below.
The twelve stories in Louise Marburg’s third collection, You Have Reached Your Destination, are about arrivals, but not the ones planned or expected. Instead, each story weaves female characters who reject what is given knowing a deeper expression of feminine identity lies under the surface. Unwilling to fit into tropes of passivity or vanity, the women in Marburg’s stories cannot traverse the paths the world that is given to them. They go their own way.
