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Sweet Bean Paste
by Durian Sukegawa
now THIS is a 5 star read. holy shit.
It’s the 25th of March and I finally have the words.
This book is something extremely special. It shows you the importance of connection between people, of community. It shows you loneliness, it shows you regret. It tells the story of the deeply ableist history of the treatment of leprosy patients. This book is anti-capitalist and anti-ableist without mentioning the terms at all. These values speak loud and clear, they scream at you from the page, scream to wake you up. There is a beautiful scene in the book where capitalism is criticised in such a way that it intertwines with the meaning of life. I will look back on this scene for the rest of my life. Being disabled myself I hold it dear to my heart. The meaning of life isn’t being a productive member of society, it’s being alive on this Earth.
It’s the 25th of March and I finally have the words.
This book is something extremely special. It shows you the importance of connection between people, of community. It shows you loneliness, it shows you regret. It tells the story of the deeply ableist history of the treatment of leprosy patients. This book is anti-capitalist and anti-ableist without mentioning the terms at all. These values speak loud and clear, they scream at you from the page, scream to wake you up. There is a beautiful scene in the book where capitalism is criticised in such a way that it intertwines with the meaning of life. I will look back on this scene for the rest of my life. Being disabled myself I hold it dear to my heart. The meaning of life isn’t being a productive member of society, it’s being alive on this Earth.