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Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book (Paperback, 2008, Penguin Books)

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through …

meh

Oof. I liked a lot about this! It also drove me nuts in ways I haven’t worked out but part of it is captured by the voice in the book that praises a future where we’re all beautiful mutts, and just, fuck you, lady. A vision of a future where different races and ethnicities have children together so we’re all amorphously raced is not the happy vision the book’s liberal voice thinks it is. I didn’t like March much either, fwiw.