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A review by balancinghistorybooks
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
4.0
I have wanted to read Jenni Fagan's The Sunlight Pilgrims since it was published. I very much enjoyed The Panopticon when I purchased it on a whim a couple of years ago, solely because there was a favourable quote by Ali Smith on the cover. I hadn't read too much about the storyline of The Sunlight Pilgrims before I began, other than that it was set in a remote part of Scotland in the very near future, and took climate change as its central focus.
The Sunlight Pilgrims was almost immediately engrossing. It has an entirely different feel to The Panopticon, but it is just as human. Fagan really gets inside the heads of her characters, and weaves believable, and sometimes relatable, backstories. She handles her young transgender character, Stella, with such depth and empathy.
The Sunlight Pilgrims gives a rather scarily believable look at a world so altered by climate change, and so soon! Yes, its effects are dramatic, but Fagan handles everything so well, and deftly. Enjoyable and incredibly thought-provoking.
The Sunlight Pilgrims was almost immediately engrossing. It has an entirely different feel to The Panopticon, but it is just as human. Fagan really gets inside the heads of her characters, and weaves believable, and sometimes relatable, backstories. She handles her young transgender character, Stella, with such depth and empathy.
The Sunlight Pilgrims gives a rather scarily believable look at a world so altered by climate change, and so soon! Yes, its effects are dramatic, but Fagan handles everything so well, and deftly. Enjoyable and incredibly thought-provoking.