Otherness


Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
Americanah
I Who Have Never Known Men
A Little Life
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Crying in H Mart
Convenience Store Woman
The Underground Railroad
Lord of the Flies
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoCirce by Madeline MillerPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Outsider Women
160 books — 11 voters
The Chain by Robin LamontBarn 8 by Deb Olin UnferthBête by Adam RobertsThe Awareness by Gene  StoneIn the Barn by Piers Anthony
The Lives of Animals (Fiction)
100 books — 1 voter

Mandira Pattnaik
In migration, above all topics, the levels of otherness, of hybridization and plurality, of shifting identities and friendships, are perhaps greater than in many other aspects of life. It is essentially the experience of choosing to forgo everything that is settled and established and moving on to construct a different reality—whether by choice or compulsion. I’d compare this with how wind etches the vast sand dunes in beautiful patterns, but chooses to deconstruct the same later, and rebuild it ...more
Mandira Pattnaik, Glass/Fire

To think morally involves reimagining one's life story in growing response to others in their very otherness from oneself. ...more
John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood

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