Interview with Susanna Sonnenberg

  Interview with Susanna Sonnenberg The Southeast Review Online, Spring 2008 Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times said of Susanna Sonnenberg‘s memoir: “Writing in sharp, crystalline prose, Ms. Sonnenberg… plung(es) readers into a sort of perpetual present tense in which we are made to experience, almost firsthand, the inexplicable and perverse behavior of an …

Breathing room

Breathing room: review of Susanna Sonnenberg’s memoir Her Last Death The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2008 Susanna Sonnenberg’s mother hovers between life and death after a car accident in Barbados. Sonnenberg decides not to sit vigil by her mother’s bedside. In a starkly honest voice she tells the reader, “I’m afraid my mother will die. …