Reviewer Shazia Hafiz Ramji writes about Dania Idriss’s collection Tales of the Mountains and the Sea in Quill and Quire:
“As in the liminal worlds of Lauren Groff and Carmen Maria Machado, where characters experience bodily trauma, slips and slides, and encounters with animals, Idriss’s stories dwell in the threshold spaces where what is real is also what is shared, instinctive, and supernatural. The generous length of these short stories allows for a fantastical weave of folk tales and realism that makes Idriss’s characters leap off the page; the worlds they inhabit are always beyond the expected.”
You can read the full review here.