Honeydew

by Tess Gunty

Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2023

Reviews

[Brian Hogan]

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[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honeydew is a quiet marvel, a book that hums rather than shouts, yet somehow fills the entire room. Tess Gunty writes with the kind of precision that feels almost supernatural; her sentences don"t just describe emotion, they reveal it. Every page glows with the strange light of ordinary life , the tenderness, the loneliness, the sharp sweetness of being human. Gunty's voice is unlike anyone else's. She sees the absurd and the sacred in the same breath, turning mundane details into poetry. Her characters don't feel invented; they feel witnessed. Each one carries a small ache, a fragile hope, a flicker of defiance that makes them unforgettable.What makes Honeydew so beautiful is its quiet confidence. There's no rush to impress just a calm, luminous trust in the power of observation. The prose is lush but never heavy, lyrical but never distant. Reading it feels like watching sunlight shift across a wall: nothing really happens, and yet everything does. In the end, Honeydew is not just a collection of stories it's a meditation on the ways we crave meaning, even in silence. It lingers like the aftertaste of something both sweet and strange, a book that doesn't end so much as echo. Tess Gunty has written something rare; fiction that breathes.