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Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen
Oct. 8th, 2021 09:04 pmCards of Grief
2/5. A slight and strange book about a human space anthropologist falling in love with a woman from an alien culture which is organized around the practice of grief as an . . . art? Way of life? Though they do not have a word for love.
Too briefly with any one character to allow me to care, and yet if it had been any longer, it would have been too long. I'm not sure what this book is really for, and I did not find it profound like some reviewers apparently have. To be fair, my taste for the vein of anthropological scifi this book is tapping is relatively limited, but even still.
Content notes: Suicide and some rather odd practices re sexual consent, all in context of an alien culture.
2/5. A slight and strange book about a human space anthropologist falling in love with a woman from an alien culture which is organized around the practice of grief as an . . . art? Way of life? Though they do not have a word for love.
Too briefly with any one character to allow me to care, and yet if it had been any longer, it would have been too long. I'm not sure what this book is really for, and I did not find it profound like some reviewers apparently have. To be fair, my taste for the vein of anthropological scifi this book is tapping is relatively limited, but even still.
Content notes: Suicide and some rather odd practices re sexual consent, all in context of an alien culture.