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Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
’Have you ever played Monopoly?‘ ’No?‘ ’It's this ancient human game where everyone is cruel to each other for material gain and then they all get angry at each other. I can't work out wether it's satirical or not.‘
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …
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I felt like there was much joy in how Keiko had found her place in life, and fulfillment through doing a good job at the convenience store. Nicely critical of the way the people around her -- her so-called friends -- can't accept the choices she's made that make her happy and keep trying to push her into something else. The only sour note for me was Shiraha; I get why he's in the story, but every page with him on it was so unpleasant (perhaps I'd become weirdly protective of Keiko?) that I enjoyed the last third of the book much less than the preceding two-thirds.
"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences …
