Reading Recommendation: The Specific Gravity of Grief, by Jay Lake

I'll start out by quoting myself twice – the following blurb is on the back cover of the book:

"We tend to clothe cancer in pretty words, to hide its savage nature from our innermost frightened hearts.  In The Specific Gravity of Grief, Jay Lake used pretty words to clothe cancer in the rags of fear that it deserves."

That was based on reading it in manuscript.  The book arrived yesterday in my mailbox, and I said this about it on Twitter:

"Pretty book to hide such knives of words."

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