... captivating and lyrical.

Mary-Alice Daniel’s wondrous new work A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents isn’t typical of most memoirs that seek a solid reckoning of sorts. Author Mary-Alice Daniel remains mired in uncertainties.

There’s a risk of historical slog with memoirs involving migration and movement, tasked as they are with ferrying entire countries through the narrative like overstuffed luggage. It’s a rare work that manages to not lose its readers in a trek through myth and superstition, politics and prejudice. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing...is one such gem.

Daniel turns her poetic sensibilities onto herself in this mash-up of memoir and narrative nonfiction.

A powerful memoir.

Incandescent debut.