Thrilled to share that Ilana Masad reviewed The Expert of Subtle Revisions for the Los Angeles Times this week:
“The Expert of Subtle Revisions” isn’t a political book, per se, nor is it moralizing. Menger-Anderson doesn’t overtly connect 1933 Vienna with the first and second Trump administrations in Hase’s near future. Instead, the plot follows Hase’s investigation of her father’s disappearance and Anton and Zedlacher’s eventual encounter with time traveler Haskell. But as Hase herself knows from editing Wikipedia, neither history nor language are neutral, and Menger-Anderson superbly demonstrates how a writer needn’t shy away from the political tensions of a historical period but can use them to heighten and contextualize setting, character and plot.” – Ilana Masad in the Los Angeles Times
The novel was also reviewed in Bookpage:
“In The Expert of Subtle Revisions, Kirsten Menger-Anderson’s oddball intellectual characters are buffeted about by all kinds of crazy passions, which have everything to do with the workings of their beautiful minds.” – Bookpage
And the book appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times as a Top of the Stack selection:
“This is a thrilling historical mystery about a young man trying to solve an impossible problem, a young woman searching for her father, and the quest for the power to transcend time. The story alternates between 1933 Vienna and contemporary Northern California, delighting readers who like smart, dual-timeline novels.” – from Book Passage in the San Francisco Bay Times
More news and reviews here.
I’ll be talking about the book at Bookshop West Portal on March 18th and at Book Passage in Corte Madera on March 19th. Please join me!