Half-Light

Reviews / Votes

Listed in "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Nonfiction Spring Preview" by 49th Shelf, February 7, 2024 "Amy Kaler is smart and thoughtful and well read, all of which make her a wonderful conversationalist. Above all, Half-Light feels like a deeply satisfying conversation. And great company for the end of the world." Angie Abdou, author of This One Wild Life "Amy Kaler invites the reader to join her on an exploration of aging in a landscape dense with history of occupation and use. She asks us to pay attention to what has already happened to small communities, to dreams and hopes, in order to prepare ourselves for an uncertain future." Theresa Kishkan, author of Blue Portugal and Other Essays # 1 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, July 14, 2024 # 6 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, July 21, 2024 "Being able to connect to an author and a location so deeply made the reading experience magical for me. I truly don't often feel myself in books. But this was one where I was thrilled to feel myself between the pages." Leah Horton, on Instagram "Kaler doesn't flinch in her approach to difficult subjects.... Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet is full of astute sit-a-while-and-think-about-it observations, many of which I'll want to come back to and reread or quote in my own writing. At her best, Kaler offers us new ways of seeing and grasping both the mundane and the terrifying." Roberta Laurie, Alberta Views, January 1, 2025 "This creative non-fiction book is a journey through the otherworlds, the outskirts, the places of abandoned and introduced mullein, or lonely milkweed and the odd moth." Kimberley Gilmour, The Temz Review, Summer 2025 [Full review at: https://www.thetemzreview.com/gilmour-kaler.html]