Reading Recommendation: Green, by Jay Lake

This was my worldcon reading book, the one I stayed up for a bit even after stumbling in late to read, and finished on the flight home.  I liked it a lot.  Green is ambitious, with a grand scale story that follows Lake's protagonist from an early age to a very mature, dangerous young woman.  While I have enjoyed Jay's other work, Green pulled up a notch for me.  Jay is a stylist, and I'm the kind of reader who prefers that the prose not slow me down.  In Green, it almost never did.  Yet it was s