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Green Fuse Burning
by Tiffany Morris
Wonderful debut novella about an artist on a strange retreat. I'm really starting to come around on horror, it was always the genre I disliked most as a kid, I guess I just didn't take to some of the movies that everyone else loves. But I'm starting to see it has more potential to examine our lives than other forms of genre writing. I dunno.
The prose is vivid, and the plot refuses all of the easy turns this sort of thing might otherwise take. Lots of fascinating nature imagery, all culminating with the Lichen Woman, such a great character/image that all I can really say is you have to read it for yourself.
Loved the ekphrastic bits at the start of each chapter. Something very tactile about the protagonist's art?
Made me think a lot about my grandmother, who died a little over a year ago now, and who I associate strongly with the pond near her place back home in Nova Scotia (one that can be upgraded/downgraded to swamp or lake depending on what sort of dignity you're trying to lend it).
The prose is vivid, and the plot refuses all of the easy turns this sort of thing might otherwise take. Lots of fascinating nature imagery, all culminating with the Lichen Woman, such a great character/image that all I can really say is you have to read it for yourself.
Loved the ekphrastic bits at the start of each chapter. Something very tactile about the protagonist's art?
Made me think a lot about my grandmother, who died a little over a year ago now, and who I associate strongly with the pond near her place back home in Nova Scotia (one that can be upgraded/downgraded to swamp or lake depending on what sort of dignity you're trying to lend it).