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cilla4progress

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42. Hmmm, so, finished it last night.

Sun Jan 28, 2018, 12:29 PM

Jan 2018

I was hoping for some sort of happy ending. Many of her books are ultimately redemptive. If it had ended on the rez, even without know the fate of her baby, I could have lived with that, but, Cedar's arrest at the end, and the non-resolution of her relationship with Sera was less than satisfying.

There were shades of Handmaid's Tale, of course, and obviously this book is a response to the regressiveness and horror of trump, and I am sympathetic to this. I didnt find her usual lyricism, though it was eminently readable.

While there were themes and strands I responded to, I felt it either went on too long or wasn't quite finished, for my wholehearted endorsement, though I'm sure I didn "get" all the layers. Perhaps this genre is not a great fit.

She is still my favorite author, and always will be!

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