“This book about my grandpa is such a kind one. I knew that my grandpa loved reading and often he used to memorize poems. I also knew that my grandma hid books from my mom when she was young. But did you know that after my grandpa’s death, my grandma started reading too? She still does. Now she loves reading and finally understands why my grandpa was reading all those books all those years.”
“A tribute to a poetry-loving father so tender you will want to read it more than once. From the sounds of the lines he read her as a child to the understanding that these poems would guide her to the woman she became, ‘Father, the more loving one’ pays a touching, delightful homage to the conspiracy between a daughter and her parent and the connection between lyric verse, the generosity of selfless love, and a girl’s awakening.” By Julian Evans
- Kiki Denis' debut novel, "The Last Day of Paradise," is a family saga that highlights the magic of language and the cycle of generations. Sunday, 15, abruptly discovers that her "baba" may not be her biological father. She narrates the events that led to her birth in a small Greek town and takes the reader back in time to understand her present situation. The story unfolds as Sunday zips blithely from one end of the timeline to the other - from the bawdiness of ancient times to the raw sexual nonchalance of today's youth - although she sometimes gets ahead of her storytelling.
