Saturday Review: “Finding The Place” a review by Jamie Tews in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Kristine Langley Mahler’s novel Curing Season: Artifacts (2022)
Titled after North Carolina’s tobacco season, Mahler’s new book Curing Season: Artifacts is deeply rooted in a sense of our state, telling tales of longing, nostalgia, and of reflection. Tews writes, “many people have a place they are pining for. For Kristine Langley Mahler, it’s North Carolina, specifically Pitt County, which is where she spent four years of adolescence.”
Tews continues, “She has been and is wrestling with what North Carolina means to her, but she also knows how much it, and those years, mean. Mahler feels she belongs to North Carolina more now than
she did when she lived there because now she knows more about its history; now she is reckoning with the ways she has changed herself and the ways she has allowed herself to be changed.”
Read the entire review in the Online Spring 2024 issue out now! And order the book from Bookshop.org.
