Review

Kazuo Ishiguro's first book, Escape Routes, finds magic in the everyday.

By Colin Steele
May 9 2020 - 12:00am
  • Escape Routes, by Naomi Ishiguro. Tinder Press. $32.99.

As the daughter of Nobel Prize winner for literature, Kazuo Ishiguro, Naomi Ishiguro has a lot to live up to with her first book, Escape Routes, comprising a novella and eight short stories.While she acknowledges her debt to her father, she also cites Angela Carter and Neil Gaiman as major influences with their "possibility of magic in the everyday".

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