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'Love aND Other Rituals' Reviewed In The Pantograph Punch

10/13/2022

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The first review of my debut story collection, Love and Other Rituals, appears in The Pantograph Punch, an arts and culture magazine publishing out of Aotearoa New Zealand. As a former contributor to The Pantograph Punch (see my essay about Katherine Mansfield from 2020), I am grateful for its continuing endorsement of my work. Below is an excerpt from Frances Revita's lovely engagement:

"If home is where the heart is, then I would like to cut my heart into tiny pieces and disperse them across all the spaces I call home. This is obviously an impractical and fatal solution. In Macansantos’ stories, however, home is a multisensory experience, memories that elicit an aching feeling. A feeling affectionately found in the unwarranted comment of 'You’ve gained weight!' as a greeting, the rekindling of old friendships in a foreign land, and the jumbled scents of 'steamed corn, roasted peanuts, car exhaust and newly washed hair'."

Read the review here and the rest of the issue where it appears, entitled Aroha (meaning "love" in Te Reo Maori), here. 
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