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The Record Keeper

Agnes Gomillion

Start date: March 1, 2020

Finish date: March 31, 2020

Discussion: Group Reads

Discussion leader: Amanda

Why we're reading this: Group Read SF - March 2020
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Mar 09, 2020 Justine rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020-read

An unusual and complicated book, requiring some time and thought to process and understand.

I was a bit confused at first, because there is so much left unsaid that you just have to glean from actions and events, from conversations, and from the inner monologue of the main character, Arika. At times it felt like listening to a conversation between two people from a country wholly foreign to me, making it a challenge to put everything in context.

I wasn't sure how I felt about the book for much of ...more

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Mar 19, 2020 Lata rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bipoc-author, x2020-read, sf-f-h, auth-f, bipoc-actor

There was something so compelling about this story, even though I often felt like I had missed critical parts of a conversation while I was reading. It's a post-apocalyptic world, and Agnes Gomillion's protagonist is one of several young people training to become Record Keepers in Kongo, the country/territory in part of America that was responsible for producing the food for the last remaining people on the planet.
Arika starts the story proud and exuberant and strong as a baby, and by the time w ...more

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Mar 11, 2020 Amanda rated it really liked it

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Mar 28, 2020 Grant rated it liked it

Apr 13, 2020 Navi marked it as to-read

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