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The Wrack by John Bierce
5.0
What can I say except: Wow.
The care and attention to detail that went into writing this is incredible. The peoples, their traditions, how individuals conform to and buck their traditions. Places having deep histories, and that being conveyed expertly. It all comes together, giving the sense of this being real.
What I want to praise most is the beautiful handling of loss. The Wrack is a disease that brings about tragedy on a mass scale. But the author made sure not to lose sight of how it affects people on a personal level. I never felt like it was taken lightly.
Also for posterity, I'm currently living through a pandemic, and boy were some aspects very real. The author wrote this before COVID-19, but seems to have captured the varied reactions to the pandemic. There are moments of fear, hope, denial, camaraderie, cowardice, inventiveness - all captured in vignettes that are told with unique voices.
I loved it.
The care and attention to detail that went into writing this is incredible. The peoples, their traditions, how individuals conform to and buck their traditions. Places having deep histories, and that being conveyed expertly. It all comes together, giving the sense of this being real.
What I want to praise most is the beautiful handling of loss. The Wrack is a disease that brings about tragedy on a mass scale. But the author made sure not to lose sight of how it affects people on a personal level. I never felt like it was taken lightly.
Also for posterity, I'm currently living through a pandemic, and boy were some aspects very real. The author wrote this before COVID-19, but seems to have captured the varied reactions to the pandemic. There are moments of fear, hope, denial, camaraderie, cowardice, inventiveness - all captured in vignettes that are told with unique voices.
I loved it.