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A review by shiradest
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
5.0
McCann stunningly captures the loneliness of both the visionary and that of the traumatized fugitive.
She expertly portrayes the flight of both the guilty fugitive and the innocent victimized fugitive,
using her setting as metaphor for the internal struggles of her main characters. Most of all,
she shows the confusion of our anti-hero, and the frustration of how he just does not get it,
seeming incapable of recognising his alternately self-righteous/justifying and then self-pitying attitudes
which lead to his bullying behaviors. She makes us feel how the fear and rejection this causes only
seems to highten his fear of isolation, leading to further and worse outbursts, rather than
understanding. Both saddening and maddening as one asks over and over again, how the hell
can he be so blind, why does he not get it? Each inkling of his own instanity or wrong is
rejected, preventing him from resolving the underlying problem, despite his repeated "repentances."
ShiraDestinie
MEOW Date Tuesday, June 19. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)
She expertly portrayes the flight of both the guilty fugitive and the innocent victimized fugitive,
using her setting as metaphor for the internal struggles of her main characters. Most of all,
she shows the confusion of our anti-hero, and the frustration of how he just does not get it,
seeming incapable of recognising his alternately self-righteous/justifying and then self-pitying attitudes
which lead to his bullying behaviors. She makes us feel how the fear and rejection this causes only
seems to highten his fear of isolation, leading to further and worse outbursts, rather than
understanding. Both saddening and maddening as one asks over and over again, how the hell
can he be so blind, why does he not get it? Each inkling of his own instanity or wrong is
rejected, preventing him from resolving the underlying problem, despite his repeated "repentances."
ShiraDestinie
MEOW Date Tuesday, June 19. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)