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A review by kateraed
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
4.0
There is so much truth here; it would be worth reading for the feminist stances on marriage and work alone, and the strong, embodied, snarky tone in which it's delivered just makes it more resonant. I liked the protagonist immediately. And, as the plot progresses, we are able to see that men have more complexity than she believes, and that women may be performing for her as much as she is for them. That is to say: we see that she's as bound by the patriarchal rules that she pushes against as any other person.
I very much valued the moments that the narrator reflects on the burdens of writing and motherhood combined. She names so many of my fears of becoming a mother.
I love how utopia is not at all how she imagined it. That her experience of living in the mundane naturalness of the giants' life together contradicts everything she had set forth, exposing and subverting her own capitalist and patriarchal expectations. "Perhaps they ... have grown beyond poor Homo sapiens and understand the world well enough that they have no need to construct a civilization upon it." (p 206)
I very much valued the moments that the narrator reflects on the burdens of writing and motherhood combined. She names so many of my fears of becoming a mother.
I love how utopia is not at all how she imagined it. That her experience of living in the mundane naturalness of the giants' life together contradicts everything she had set forth, exposing and subverting her own capitalist and patriarchal expectations. "Perhaps they ... have grown beyond poor Homo sapiens and understand the world well enough that they have no need to construct a civilization upon it." (p 206)