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The Becoming
Fiction. Poetry. THE BECOMING is a steam-punk retelling of the Romulus and Remus myth, set on the Oregon coast. Instead of two brothers, the she-wolf delivers a mixed litter of mongrel children and dogs, fathered by a rogue member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The mixed liter are abandoned, left to their own devices to make sense--through language--of the savage land they inherit in the name of manifest destiny.THE BECOMING is book 0 of the West of Kingdom Come tetralogy.
130 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2013
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November 27, 2021
A challenging, arduous experience that required making three spreadsheets and a flashcard set, brutally extensive research, and the application of every last bit of my linguistic knowledge. After all that, I understood probably 15% of the text, but the cross-linguistic puns, plurality of meanings, subversions of form, and entangled thematic elements made for a fulfilling encounter with the book–object. It's probably better than I know, but I'm limited by my ability to interface with it.
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