Kimbol Soques

The Longing

Arts & Literature

“Paul Hooker’s The Longing offers an arc of meditations on absence that is somehow presence, or its inverse, which in Hooker’s writing blurs into the same thing. Blurred, too, are any lines between divine and earthly, of holy and not. What do you know of these things? Hooker challenges the reader to take what they think they know, and think they don’t, and look again.”