Book of the Week: BRAWLER by Lauren Groff

Precise, surprising and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, the stories in Brawler reveal the repeated fracture points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and survival. At what point do circumstances cause us to act in a way we would not have expected?

• Read Stella’s review.

• Listen to Stella’s RNZ review.

• You just do language.

• Taut yet teeming.

• Includes actual swimming.

• Between compassion and hatred.

• Other people’s good intentions.

• The animal ecstasy of athletics.

• The rhythm of the body, moving.

• The impulse to mae a deeper connection.

• Animated.

• What does she like?

• Other books by Lauren Groff.