{"id":3825,"date":"2025-02-12T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:46:37","slug":"a-starred-review-for-a-curse-for-the-homesick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/2025\/02\/12\/a-starred-review-for-a-curse-for-the-homesick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starred Review for A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cA CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK is above all a second-chance romance, but author Laura Brooke Robson&#8217;s simple, elegant tale is also a devoted character study and a love letter to [Robson\u2019s] gorgeous fictional setting of Stenland: the wind, the cairns, the old towers; the ice cream spot and Hedda\u2019s, the only coffee shop; the concrete swimming pool and the claustrophobia of a small town. This grounded, moving novel is a perfect rainy day read and an ode to what it is to be human\u2014to desire and gain, to desire and lose, to find again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; BookPage Starred Review<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3826 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0325_BookPage_06-copy-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0325_BookPage_06-copy-234x300.jpg 234w, http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0325_BookPage_06-copy.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK is above all a second-chance romance, but author Laura Brooke Robson&#8217;s simple, elegant tale is also a devoted character study and a love letter to [Robson\u2019s] gorgeous fictional setting of Stenland: the wind, the cairns, the old towers; the ice cream spot and Hedda\u2019s, the only coffee shop; the concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3828,"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}