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morninglightmama 's review for:
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
by Janelle Monáe
I finished this collection of short stories the day after having the amazing pleasure of seeing authors Janelle Monáe, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Yohanca Delgado speak about the book and its dystopian, afro-futurist world. The stories extend the world Monáe created with her DIRTY COMPUTER album and 'emotion picture', and in that expansion, the hope and love grows more and more. The intentional centering of Black, queer, nonbinary, and trans characters is valuable and so necessary. I appreciated the varied perspectives, some unfamiliar and others deeply relatable. Speculative fiction isn't a genre I have read much of, yet this reading experience was undeniably transformative for me.