I had a journey with this book. It first became available in October but I had several other books checked out, so I returned it and put it on hold again. I got it again in December right before a vacation, which in years past was great timing, but with two children, both under three at the time, vacations are no longer the time to get some reading accomplished. After this vacation, I had to return home earlier than the rest of my family and […]
There’s more than one way to be human
A year ago at this time, in the wake of our devastating presidential election, I reviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, two treatises on racism and oppression in America. As I read N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy, it occurred to me that her novels present a perfect fictional account of the same topic. These Hugo-Award-winning stories take place in a world where racial difference leads to oppression, exploitation, and genocide. As a result of this […]