Otherness


Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
Americanah
I Who Have Never Known Men
A Little Life
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Crying in H Mart
Convenience Store Woman
The Underground Railroad
Lord of the Flies
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
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Outsider Women
162 books — 13 voters
2020 The Animal Uprising, And So It Begins by Colin C. EvansThe Chain by Robin LamontAnimal Listeners by R. AveenBarn 8 by Deb Olin UnferthBête by Adam Roberts
The Lives of Animals (Fiction)
102 books — 4 voters

Mandira Pattnaik
In migration, above all topics, the levels of otherness, of hybridization and plurality, of shifting identities and friendships, are perhaps greater than in many other aspects of life. It is essentially the experience of choosing to forgo everything that is settled and established and moving on to construct a different reality—whether by choice or compulsion. I’d compare this with how wind etches the vast sand dunes in beautiful patterns, but chooses to deconstruct the same later, and rebuild it ...more
Mandira Pattnaik, Glass/Fire

Carlos Fuentes
Somos libres porque nos movemos. Salimos de una herida llamada soledad y viajamos a otra herida llamada muerte. Hay un cruce de caminos entre el punto de partida y el punto de llegada. En ese corretear, mi niña adorada encontramos siempre al otro, al que no es como nosotros, y nos vemos obligados a entender que si nos movemos y nos encontramos, debemos amarnos a partir del contraste.
Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

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