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A review by himalaya
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade
4.0
this is kinda weird! I enjoyed it mostly. lots of interesting conversations and thoughts; but it feels a little - I don’t want to say unfinished?, but also like. I don’t know. it kinda just ended. (Also I don’t quite understand how x came back?)
I don’t think it should be novel length, but it could have done with a little more?
I appreciated that it questioned like. is this Grief a new thing? does colonisation/genocide not have a similar effect, what with Indigenous populations having higher suicide rates already (and this is just only recognised as a new thing because it's happening to white people?) - I think obviously the concept falls apart a little if you go too deep into that, but that's the point of short experimental novellas I guess
I appreciated that it questioned like. is this Grief a new thing? does colonisation/genocide not have a similar effect, what with Indigenous populations having higher suicide rates already (and this is just only recognised as a new thing because it's happening to white people?) - I think obviously the concept falls apart a little if you go too deep into that, but that's the point of short experimental novellas I guess