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From the Wreck

Jane Rawson

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Mar 06, 2017 Michael Livingston rated it it was amazing

This is a beautiful and utterly unique book, about loneliness and belonging, trauma and recovery all with a shape-shifting alien thrown in. That makes it sound much wackier than it is - this is sad, lovely and deeply original.

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Nov 17, 2017 Rachel Watts rated it it was amazing

Shelves: love-love-love, women-writers

Jane Rawson writes the most unusual, genre defying books and this novel is no exception. Somehow it seamlessly blends historical and speculative fiction while remaining true and invested in both. Wonderful concept, beautifully executed.

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Sep 16, 2018 Kim rated it really liked it

Shelves: act-library, ex-wishlist, a-book-for-every-year-of-my-life

I really like what the author did here. She's added such an other-worldly element to a real event in 1859 that made me float through her writing.
We really are specks that get way too caught up in our worries and fears....
"Why were you so angry? You lived, you fool! You got to have a whole wonderful life on a beautiful world and all you could do was rage against it......You're a speck, a tiny speck in time, in space....." page 254.

This novel was a worthy inclusion in the 2018 Miles Franklin Long ...more

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Nov 10, 2018 Kirsten Alexander rated it it was amazing

This is an incredible book, and I'm not sure the back cover does it's strange wonder justice. (Which I understand because of spoilers and not wanting potential readers to be scared off by an unorthodox story.) The prose is a delight: confident, convincing, a joy to read. I'm in awe of her imagination and pacing and...all of it. ...more

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