A review of “So Late in the Day” in 100 words by Catherine Stover
This sentence comes at the end of the first paragraph. We see that while everything seems okay, it’s not. Something has ended, and the protagonist is upset. Keegan is reluctant to spell it out for us. Instead, she trusts the reader to figure it out. She’s a master at creating suspense. I felt so tense when I finished reading it that I had to get up and walk around the room. It reminded me of Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory.” He said writers should show us just the tip of the problems that lie underneath the surface. This story does that brilliantly.
Work Cited:
Keegan, Claire. So Late in the Day. Faber & Farber Ltd, 2023, p. 1.
That first story is so tense–and then sad. And then, well, maybe, well, I won’t spoil it. It’s a lovely collection that really left me wanting much more!