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Good story and well told, I think.
I love that there was a happy ending, even though it was so, so, so very painful to get there.
I love that her mother understood at last, and saved her. We need out mothers to understand and save us.
And I realized that we white people can never, ever understand the horror of slave trade. I mean... we like to point out that white people have been slaves, too, that whole peoples of white people have been seen as lesser beings... but not even these people were see ...more
I love that there was a happy ending, even though it was so, so, so very painful to get there.
I love that her mother understood at last, and saved her. We need out mothers to understand and save us.
And I realized that we white people can never, ever understand the horror of slave trade. I mean... we like to point out that white people have been slaves, too, that whole peoples of white people have been seen as lesser beings... but not even these people were see ...more
I requested this from Netgalley as soon as I saw it (and lucky enough, they provided an electronic copy to me free-of-charge in exchange for an honest review) because I had listened to the This American Life episode that played the song that this book was based on. The song was original, shocking, and entirely engrossing (go check it out if you haven't heard it!).
The book has the same fresh originality in concept and the layering of tales in this mythos that kept me reading. However, I struggle ...more
The book has the same fresh originality in concept and the layering of tales in this mythos that kept me reading. However, I struggle ...more
Lovely and dark, a story about mermaids and rebirth and tragedy, and how memories of trauma are necessary but also too painful to bear, and about love between people from far apart worlds.
I found this very hard to follow. I wish I could rate it higher, because at its heart lies a rather profound question about the nature of what it means to be human. The world of the story is a fascinating creation, and the dilemma faced by the protagonist was agonizing, with no real good answer. But I'm not sure the things that happened, either in the present or in the past, all held together if looked at closely.
If you don't know it, I recommend searching out and listening to the song "The Dee ...more
If you don't know it, I recommend searching out and listening to the song "The Dee ...more
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