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Disclaimer: The author is a friend of mine.

Proof of the Sun is a short chapbook of poems about the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse. The writing is beautiful, though that seems odd to say given the subject matter. Ott tells her story with incisive honesty, expressing anger and pain, of course, but also finding hope and even humor in her experiences.

A collection of stories in the realm of the fantastic. Lee was a master of diversely sumptuous prose styles, though her pacing might be too leisurely for today’s taste. She had a sharp sense of irony, and a vivid and twisted imagination. The orientalism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia, all common in her time, spoil parts of these stories now.