Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.
Forty-year-old Esther wakes from cryogenic stasis 100 years in the future. Alice Robinson’s third novel,, takes the Sleeping Beauty trope and rewires it into a feminist speculative thriller. As Esther pieces her memories together and grapples with the world into which she has emerged, the novel becomes a merciless interrogation of motherhood and the stickiness of the maternal role and identity.
Global problems today have got worse in this future alt-London, known as “The City”; with Cass’ doctor husband working abroad, raising children there becomes untenable. When climate activists target a playground, Cass flees with the kids – first to her mother-in-law’s home in the countryside, then to a commune behind a wall in the north.
Kruckemeyer is one of life’s optimists, though if you’re allergic to toxic positivity, rest assured his vision remains anchored in a profoundly tragicomic philosophy of life. This mix of memoir and historical survey captures with immediacy and urgency the cast of characters caught up in an ecological drama of global significance that implicates us all.The story begins with the Jomon, Japan’s original hunter-gatherers, and the influx of Korean rice farmers from whom most modern Japanese are descended.
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