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Unfortunately DNFing at the 42 page mark. Such a strong start but the characterization of the main protagonist became too inconsistent and there were some lines that were truly eye roll inducing.

“Well, maybe joy is too strong a word but there were entire minutes in that derelict station where being alive was no longer an emergency, or an anesthetic.”

“Your milestone barrels at me. Wishes push up. They don’t care that I’ve forfeited the right to wish them.”

“And yet life is still to be lived, in tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.”

“In writing fiction, one avoids coincidences like that, which offer convenient metaphor, shoddy poignancy, and unearned drama. Life, however, does not follow a novelist’s discipline.”

“What is this heat in her throat, this urge to cry? It must be the opposite of homesickness, to return home to find it more beautiful, to return and still feel distance.”

"It occurred to me then that if one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to make art, then the work of subjugation, of colonization, is complete. Such work can be undone only by acts of concrete reclamation."

Loving this so far! Barbara's voice is so singular.

“Every dead man is a felled tree. But women die ignominiously, like dried raisins stuck to the bottom of a Sun-Maid box.”