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jaycumberland 's review for:
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
This is a metaphorical climate change tale about living subject to the will of others and the momentum of life.
Why would you change anything when the future carries you forward like a railway track? How would you change anything when others have autonomous wills and often direct them at you? Where would you start making change when we’re all so different—rich and poor, beautiful and brainy, passionate and neat, dreamy and pragmatic, queer and straight? We are all alive in this time when the human race decides whether or not it will come to an end due to climate change. Can we become a community of difference to face a challenge that doesn’t care about our differences?
This story told through the perspectives of a father, mother, son, and daughter in a small town Irish family weaves these questions into a tale where ever-increasing family dysfunction serves as a stand-in for the chaos climate change is bringing and will bring. Five stars!
Why would you change anything when the future carries you forward like a railway track? How would you change anything when others have autonomous wills and often direct them at you? Where would you start making change when we’re all so different—rich and poor, beautiful and brainy, passionate and neat, dreamy and pragmatic, queer and straight? We are all alive in this time when the human race decides whether or not it will come to an end due to climate change. Can we become a community of difference to face a challenge that doesn’t care about our differences?
This story told through the perspectives of a father, mother, son, and daughter in a small town Irish family weaves these questions into a tale where ever-increasing family dysfunction serves as a stand-in for the chaos climate change is bringing and will bring. Five stars!