Status Updates From La déesse et le marchand

"And then I recalled the resolution I had made while I was on the phone with Piya: that I would keep faith with myself." I cannot describe how unbearably hard this moment punched me in the gut. This is a masterpiece of a book, truly.

This book is going so hard in so many ways. I feel like a kid watching Indiana Jones for the first time again, discovering all the joy and excitement that comes from piecing together a historical narrative from myth in the places it happened, and hey this time there isn't any white saviorism or colonialist apologia. (Well. there IS some classism. but it's a theme, the MC is working through it dw)