Interviews/Podcasts about Fake It So Real
Capital Daily
Good News Friday podcast and print interview: Victoria-based Susan Sanford Blades’s debut novel, Fake It So Real, earns awards and nominations.
Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes Podcast
Season 3, Episode 9: Susan Sanford Blades talks about mother-daughter relationships in Fake It So Real.
Get Lit with Jamie Tennant
Episode 221 with Susan Sanford Blades. We had a great chat about Fake It So Real.
EDify
Author Q&A: Susan Sanford Blades’s new book casts an eye to 1990s Edmonton
The Amateurs Project
For the Love of Crust Fiction: An Interview with Susan Sanford Blades
BC Bookworld
No future? A coffee shop waitress raises two daughters after being abandoned by her punk rock partner. Article is on page 26.
Reviews of Fake It So Real
“The language in Fake It So Real is precise, at times lush almost to the point of grotesque … Sanford Blades creates vivid characters and scenes with just the right words. … Fake It So Real is a great introduction to Sanford Blades, a writer to watch.”
— Megan Butcher, Herizons
“Fake It So Real is an astonishing debut novel. … Susan Sanford Blades infuses her language with powerful energy.”
— Jay Ruzesky, The Malahat Review
“Sanford Blades’ debut is a gritty, breathtaking portrait of parenthood and the ghosts in every family.”
— Courtney Eathorne, ALA Booklist
“[A] book whose effort never shows, whose seams and joints are invisible. It just works, and as a reader, it’s such a pleasure to submit to a book that’s so well constructed. … a story of love and family that is achingly real.”
— Kerry Clare, Pickle me This
“The characters feel complicated and real, and most palpably, their pain feels brutally authentic. … what struck me most about this book is the sentence work. Sanford Blades plays with form here, slicing out the unnecessary connective tissue in lines and paragraphs, so that the writing feels carved out, chiseled, hard-edged.”
— Katie Zdybel, Art & Craft
“[Sanford] Blades’s language … is unadorned and efficient, with a bite that is particularly piquant in the dialogue. … The pared-down style, irony, and shifting perspective combine to accentuate the jagged edges of relationships between and among the characters.”