Details

Titel

Fiction

Ist Teil von

• Library Journal, 2021, Vol.146 (7), p.67

Ort / Verlag

New York: MSI Information Services

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Much more than a female buddy narrative combined with a road trip, this debut novel deftly explores the relationship of language and self-identity, an issue heightened by Sara's parents having changed her name so she can fit into her new community. The result reflects a fairly organic waypoint for Bell, combining both the mythology and dark fabulism of his first novel, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, and the more dystopic, mechanistic texture of his follow-up, Scrapper. Everyone's livelihood depends on Sanderson, so no one is talking about how they harvest Damnation Grove: spraying with herbicides similar to Agent Orange, working loggers to exhaustion and injury, and using force to eliminate anyone who speaks out against their practices. Daniel Bywater, a Yurok fish biologist whose tribe has fished the area's creeks for centuries, arrives to study the suspect water quality and declining fish population.