The Glass Town Game by Catherynne Valente
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3/5. The Bronte siblings – you know, Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell (I had forgotten Branwell existed, which I think is the normal reaction) – take a train to another land where luggage can talk and soldiers can be brought back to life.
This is the Kat Valenest book I've ever read. It's strange and full of wordplay and gleeful creativity, but it's also deeply concerned with death and loss and grief. Brontes, and all. Also deeply feminist without ever using the word.
Tangentially, my thoughts on the Brontes: Wuthering Heights is infuriating but brilliant; I wrote a lot about it back in college. Jane Eyre can go to hell. And Anne wrote….a thing?
Anyway, this is delightful real person fiction suitable for adults or that weird teen in your life.
3/5. The Bronte siblings – you know, Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell (I had forgotten Branwell existed, which I think is the normal reaction) – take a train to another land where luggage can talk and soldiers can be brought back to life.
This is the Kat Valenest book I've ever read. It's strange and full of wordplay and gleeful creativity, but it's also deeply concerned with death and loss and grief. Brontes, and all. Also deeply feminist without ever using the word.
Tangentially, my thoughts on the Brontes: Wuthering Heights is infuriating but brilliant; I wrote a lot about it back in college. Jane Eyre can go to hell. And Anne wrote….a thing?
Anyway, this is delightful real person fiction suitable for adults or that weird teen in your life.