The Orange Spotlight

Alcove by Lavie Tidhar (Mud Luscious Press)

Over the holidays I had replied to a tweet by JA Tyler and in turn received a Mud Luscious Press chapbook. The book I received was Alcove by the talented Lavie Tidhar. A small yellow pocket chap that contains a lofty load. Tidhar makes me want to travel, to explore an island, meet a tribe, and expirience a new life. Alcove is a small slice of an expience that Tidhar makes universal through his langauge. Through out the story he use "I-We" or "My-Our", and allows the reader to join with his adventure.

"Here is a story, my-our story. I-we have escaped silence into noise, but silence always claims its just reward. I-we sail a mighty river - ho!"

Tidhar speaks in a voice that is truly chanelled from a primitive land. It makes sense that he has lived all over the globe and currently reside in South East Asia. This chap has done two things for me, it makes me want to explore more MLP chaps and it makes me eagerly await his debut novel The Bookman due this Spring from Angry Robot. Alcove is a part of the 2009 ML Press subscription service, and to receive amazing chaps like it you need to subscribe to the 2010 service.