One Sun Only - Camille Bordas

Written By Mona Angéline

In “One Sun Only,” Camille Bordas writes about the eccentric, often quiet ways we process grief and trauma. She has a sharp eye for the small, mundane things we do to stay afloat—the details that don't fit into a typical, plot-driven narrative. Instead of treating grief as a problem to be solved or a hurdle to overcome, she writes about it as a space we inhabit, sometimes for a very long time.

I related to these stories because they're character-driven and don't follow a typical three-act resolution. Life—and trauma—is rarely that linear. The book points out that grief isn't about being sad, but about the contradiction of trying to live a normal life while managing the heaviness. Add to that a dry, observant humor in Bordas’s writing that makes the stories feel like your own.

What a beautiful, observant anthology. Well done, Camille Bordas!

In gratitude to Random House for this beautiful Advance Reader's Copy.

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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