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I'm really enjoying A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine. It's the second book in a scifi series about an ambassador from a small station to the colonizing empire. It's full of linguistics, political intrigue, introspection about being torn between two cultures, and a running joke about being stressed by never having enough time to keep up with your emails.

"They said he was a bright kid, that he would go places. And they made it clear that they expected him to go. To which places did not matter."

Baldwin was adept at turning a mirror on the knowledge that we hide from ourselves.

"Though a man like Marius used populare rhetoric to fuel his political career, he also burned to be accepted by the nobility, yo be recognized as their equal. Saturninus, on the other hand, was a bomb-thrower. Like many popular revolutions in history, the men who unlock the door are not always the man who come bursting through."

"If I have the energy, tact, and skill by which I could cultivate my acre or two, and buy my cow into the bargain, I do not see any just reason why my energies should be crippled and my forces held back, and why I should be content as an agricultural labourer with a rood of ground and my nose to the grindstone all the days of my life." Joseph Arch, p. 72