Title:: [[Lion]] Authors:: [[Sonya Walger]] Tags:: #fiction Read:: [[2025-03-24]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHmI0leBg01/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[New York Review of Books (NYRB)]], 2025 - Original Copyright:: 2025 - Pages:: 172 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9781681379036 ## Annotations Lion is a beautiful, perfect book and you should read it.  Walger’s autofictive novel is about the narrator’s relationship with her eccentric and complicated father (I kept thinking of him as an Argentinian Royal Tenenbaum). The prose buckles you up from the beginning, and in scenes that bounce around the world and time, Walger reveals a family history rife with pain, but ultimately love and forgiveness.  Shoutout to [@samxbxg](https://www.instagram.com/samxbxg/) for “yelling” about how good this is, and to [@nextchapterbooksellers](https://www.instagram.com/nextchapterbooksellers/)for carrying it.