In an interview with The Atlantic, author Celeste Ng described her work using another book that will be very familiar to any parents out there: Goodnight Moon. The comparison seems odd at first, but the way the book “teaches you to look twice” is a beautiful way to describe a good book. The Cactus League by Emily Nemens unfolds slowly, with the narrator telling you to expect as much right in the preamble, but as it unfolds, it forces you to look twice, to see what you might have missed in a previous chapter and reassess your thoughts about where the book is going.
Let’s Go Read: The Cactus League
