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The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
Jul. 13th, 2019 01:12 pmThe Book of M
3/5. Various people (almost all of them PoC, btw) make their way across post-apocalypse America, except this is the weird apocalypse where everyone first loses their shadow and then their memory.
Okay, but I've read a lot of apocalypse fiction lately, and if you want the visceral one that will haunt you, I'd choose The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, and if you want the one that more completely fulfills its literary ambitions, I'd choose Station Eleven.
What this book does have going for it is a streak of weird surrealism. As people lose their memory, they gain the power to bend reality around what they believe to be true, so you have your standard apocalypse landscape punctuated by, like, trees with faces.
Anyway, interesting, but not the best apocalypse book I've read recently, and not as interesting on the subject of memory and identity as it thinks it is.
3/5. Various people (almost all of them PoC, btw) make their way across post-apocalypse America, except this is the weird apocalypse where everyone first loses their shadow and then their memory.
Okay, but I've read a lot of apocalypse fiction lately, and if you want the visceral one that will haunt you, I'd choose The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, and if you want the one that more completely fulfills its literary ambitions, I'd choose Station Eleven.
What this book does have going for it is a streak of weird surrealism. As people lose their memory, they gain the power to bend reality around what they believe to be true, so you have your standard apocalypse landscape punctuated by, like, trees with faces.
Anyway, interesting, but not the best apocalypse book I've read recently, and not as interesting on the subject of memory and identity as it thinks it is.
