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Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and a bit of a grump. …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, …
Skillfully melds the fear of living in an oppressive dystopia with the melancholy of the loss of memories and, first, the objects they're tied to. Tends towards feeling pretty dark, leavened only by the obvious love between the main characters.
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Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
’Have you ever played Monopoly?‘ ’No?‘ ’It's this ancient human game where everyone is cruel to each other for material gain and then they all get angry at each other. I can't work out wether it's satirical or not.‘
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …
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I felt like there was much joy in how Keiko had found her place in life, and fulfillment through doing a good job at the convenience store. Nicely critical of the way the people around her -- her so-called friends -- can't accept the choices she's made that make her happy and keep trying to push her into something else. The only sour note for me was Shiraha; I get why he's in the story, but every page with him on it was so unpleasant (perhaps I'd become weirdly protective of Keiko?) that I enjoyed the last third of the book much less than the preceding two-thirds.
"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large …
