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To be honest ... I’ve signed more petitions this year - for justice in our world .. than many years past.

The cleverness of Zumas’s narrative structure is that it allows readers to understand the characters both from their own perspective and as they exist in the minds of others. Their names are introduced late into their stories; until then, Zumas refers to them as “The Biographer” (Ro), “The Daughter” (Mattie), “The Mender” (Gin), and “The Wife” (Susan), in a nod to the singular categories women can be shoehorned into. Gin is revealed as a woman who loves to fix people and animals, a person with kind instincts who feels things deeply, not least of which is the impulse to isolate herself. It’s only when she’s seen by other characters that she becomes an outcast, a hermit whom the local fishermen suspect of witchcraft. Similarly, Susan and Ro judge each other’s lifestyles and choices, making presumptions that are soon challenged by the other’s narration.As a novel, however, it's okay. I might have liked it better if the more fascinating Biographer had an actual name. A lot of the details of the characters' lives were more interesting than their Roles would have them be. Is it on purpose? Undoubtedly. Did it work the way it should have? Not sure, but I'm leaning toward no. Poetic and terrifying...You'll thrill to Zumas's well-crafted sentences, but prepare to get angry." Her husband stomps in, lifts the dustcover, sets the needle on the record, unleashes a bouncy guitar. The only people working their ass off - NOT COMPLACENT- were people fighting like hell to make ‘sure’ gays would ‘not’ be allowed to marry. Well, good. It’s a hard world.”“We are the dinosaurs, marching, marching.“We are the dinosaurs. We make the earth flat!”

Virginia Woolf’s “The Lighthouse” which provides the epigraph, the character’s (and town’s) names and inspired both the the seaside setting and the multi-voice approach It is very much present day, but examines how very different our society could be if just a couple of laws pertaining to female reproductive rights were changed; think alternative herstory.So I found it very useful to read in detail what the author said about this aspect of the book, which also brings out the autobiographical elements of the book: passed in California. We voted against Gay Marriage. I had been watching this poll early on and was worried. I kept telling Paul... “I’m concerned”. And like most liberals in California.. Paul was complacent in the beginning as in: “don’t be silly, nothing to be concerned about -this is the Bay Area of Gay Pride”. I have to assume the emotional distance is intentional. Zumas refers to the four main characters as "The Biographer" (Ro), "The Wife" (Susan), "The Daughter" (Mattie) and "The Mender" (Gin), with the fifth perspective being that of fictional explorer, Eivør Minervudottir, who "The Biographer" is writing a book about. I enjoyed the novel’s unique structure including the interludes of the biographer’s novel. The character development is excellent. The more I read, slowly but surely, the more I became invested in each character. I love that you start out just knowing these women’s roles in society rather than their names, but over the course of the story, you learn who they are and how they connect to one another.



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