{"id":1526,"date":"2014-09-04T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T22:02:14","slug":"the-latest-on-kimberly-elkins-what-is-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/09\/04\/the-latest-on-kimberly-elkins-what-is-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest on Kimberly Elkins’ What Is Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kimberly<\/a><\/p>\n

Kimberly Elkins’ (fiction ’10) debut novel, What Is Visible<\/em><\/a> (Grand Central\/Twelve, 6\/14) continues to garner critical acclaim! It received a wonderful review by Barbara Kingsolver on the cover of the New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/a> and was picked as a NYTBR<\/em> Editors’ Choice, in addition to being chosen as The Most Inspirational Book of 2014 by Woman’s Day<\/em>, listed in Best Summer Debuts<\/em> by the LA Times<\/em> and Library Journal<\/em>, and awarded the June Top Fiction Pick by Bookpage<\/em>. What Is Visible<\/em> was also featured recently on NBC’s Weekend Today Show, and on NPR Weekend Edition.<\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, “Elkins makes this great American woman visible again, in all her remarkable, fully human complexity”: The Atlanta Constitution-Journal calls the book “a literary triumph,” and the Toronto Star named it “a tour de force, uplifting and powerful.” \u00a0The Atlantic Monthly<\/em> says:<\/p>\n

\u201cKimberly Elkins gives Bridgman her defiant due in re-imagining her fascinating, now-forgotten story\u2026 The world Elkins discovers within is anything but muted. In tactile prose, she evokes a soul and a body with hungers (yes, there is sex) that none of Bridgman\u2019s guides begins to imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note that WIV<\/em> is published by a division of Hachette, and so the battle between Amazon and Hachette is having a profound negative impact on sales–the book couldn’t even be pre-ordered!—so if you’re going to buy it, please don’t buy from Amazon.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Kimberly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kimberly Elkins’ (fiction ’10) debut novel, What Is Visible (Grand Central\/Twelve, 6\/14) continues to garner critical acclaim! It received a wonderful review by Barbara Kingsolver on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and was picked as a NYTBR Editors’ Choice, in addition to being chosen as The Most Inspirational Book of 2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620,4165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}