{"id":551354,"date":"2026-05-27T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrisburgnewsnow.com\/news\/story\/551354\/a-tender-unsentimental-novel-about-memory-motherhood-and-the-risk-of-kindness-an-inflammable-act-of-kindness-by-monika-killeen.html"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:36:10","slug":"a-tender-unsentimental-novel-about-memory-motherhood-and-the-risk-of-kindness-an-inflammable-act-of-kindness-by-monika-killeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/story\/551354\/a-tender-unsentimental-novel-about-memory-motherhood-and-the-risk-of-kindness-an-inflammable-act-of-kindness-by-monika-killeen.html","title":{"rendered":"A tender, unsentimental novel about memory, motherhood and the risk of kindness: An inflammable act of kindness by Monika Killeen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monika Killeen’s An Inflammable Act of Kindness<\/em> follows Meli as she moves between past and present, confronting family fractures, motherhood and the quiet choices that remold a life. Economical, wry and deeply observant, the novel traces a childhood in former Czechoslovakia through an adult life in and around London – therapist, partner, mother – where ordinary moments reveal stubborn echoes of the past.<\/p>\n

Killeen writes with emotional honesty and a sharp eye for the small scenes that matter. A child’s apology, a late\u2011night row, a therapy hour, an unexpected tenderness. The novel’s refusal of easy verdicts, neither scapegoating nor saccharine forgiveness, makes its examination of intergenerational mother\u2011daughter ties both exacting and humane. Kindness here is dangerous and hopeful in equal measure, risky for someone raised to expect hurt, but also the hinge of possible change.<\/p>\n

For readers of literary fiction about women’s lives, family inheritance and moral nuance, An Inflammable Act of Kindness<\/em> delivers a compact, moving study of how we carry and transform what we inherit. Tender but unsentimental, it insists that flawed people remain worthy of love, and that becoming whole is a brave, incremental work.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Monika Killeen was born in 1976 in a small town in Slovakia. She left in 1995 to see the world beyond her country’s borders. Discovering life as a young woman in London, she learned English while working as an au-pair. After twenty-six years in the UK and careers in law and psychotherapy, she migrated once again. She now lives on Waiheke Island off the north coast of New Zealand, with her husband, two children, and Rosie and Daisy, two dogs who are her by far best children. An Inflammable Act of Kindness<\/em> is her first novel.<\/p>\n

Book Name: An Inflammable Act of Kindness<\/a><\/p>\n

Author Name: Monika Killeen<\/p>\n

ISBN Number: 978-1991083142<\/p>\n

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