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Feb 07, 2015miaone rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
If there were 10 stars possible for Molly Gloss's wonderful novel, I'd give them. I'm rereading it for perhaps the 3rd time, and it continues to dumbfound me at the beauty of the language. And somehow when she describes a new character, the reader feels an acquaintance has already been established. I find myself thinking something like, "Oh, yes, he's like that mean guy who lived down the street when I was a child," or "Oh, right, she's like Joyce who lived next door and who was so patient with her kids, and with me, a moody pre-teen." Her characters are heroic in dealing daily with enormous hardships, but they do so in a quiet, matter-of-fact way that is so different from the nonsense offered in today's media. Also, Gloss's characters are not cookie-cutter Bad or Good, but rather are some of each, as is true for all us humans.