Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey
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resoluteI really enjoyed this book.
It's a dystopian post-some-sort-of-cataclysm book that concerns itself with the travelling librarians who run the underground railroad to a better life. All of which is fine and delightful, but what I particularly appreciated was the inner workings of a character who discovers that she has been a collaborator in her own oppression and the oppression of others all her life, and what the heck does a person DO with that new knowledge? Who are you now? What do you do next?
Those are incredibly important questions, one that I know a lot of people are wrestling with.
I recommend Upright Women Wanted if you like your post-apocalyptic dystopias to have space for human lives and loves, to have hope. If you need stories of how to resist oppression. If you don't know who you are, if everything you know about yourself hurts someone else.
Recommended.
It's a dystopian post-some-sort-of-cataclysm book that concerns itself with the travelling librarians who run the underground railroad to a better life. All of which is fine and delightful, but what I particularly appreciated was the inner workings of a character who discovers that she has been a collaborator in her own oppression and the oppression of others all her life, and what the heck does a person DO with that new knowledge? Who are you now? What do you do next?
Those are incredibly important questions, one that I know a lot of people are wrestling with.
I recommend Upright Women Wanted if you like your post-apocalyptic dystopias to have space for human lives and loves, to have hope. If you need stories of how to resist oppression. If you don't know who you are, if everything you know about yourself hurts someone else.
Recommended.