“The chicken stew had carrots and celery in it, and I hadn’t tasted either in at least two years.” P.108 💜
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This takes place in the future, after flooding has taken over a lot of our land and created a waterworld amongst some mountaintop colonies. Myra is on a mission to find her oldest daughter who was taken away by the girl’s father in a boat while Myra was pregnant with their second child. The girl she was pregnant with, Pearl, is now 7 years old and her travelling companion as they seek to find the older daughter. I really liked how realistically bleak this book was and loved reading about a climate catastrophe – extremely relevant. I also loved a woman’s post-apocalyptic perspective – I feel like many of the books I’ve read (not that many, to be honest) are with male protagonists. I liked seeing a woman with some survival chops! I do think it started to drag a bit towards the end. I’m sure I was ready for the journey to end as much as the shipmates in the story. Definitely a great book club read as there is much to discuss and I enjoyed discussing with the group led by angelareadsbooks last month! 💜
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Sounds intense!
Sounds intense!
Great review! And you’re right, I reckon this is a great bookclub book!
Thanks for this honest review! I’ll be reading it in January and I’ve read so many mixed feelings about this!
So great reading together!!
I recently finished this one
I’m currently halfway through and already feel like it’s dragging!
Have you read Severance by Ling Ma? I really liked it- I am a big dystopian/post-apocalypse fan- and it has a female protagonist.
I thought it was you who read this. I plowed through and now I think I need to talk about it with someone. It’s such a story and told so beautifully. Myra uses her everything to get what she wants. Amazing.