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A beautiful and sad story about losing someone and needing to save someone else to save yourself. As always Everett's highly stylized non-style leads to an incredibly fluid reading experience and his exceptionally well characterized first-person narrator contains and reveals all the ugly and beautiful complexities of muddling your way through this world. Incidentally much of the novel is set in and around Altadena.

I started reading this essay collection the day after Trump's re-election and finished it for the most part the day of his second inauguration. Published during his first term much of what is discussed within remains relevant, possibly even more so now. Lennard discusses race, violence, love, and abolition. One chapter explores the lifelong ramifications of the legal response to pipeline protestors while another explores her personal experiences of attempting suicide. Wide-ranging and with a rare clarity of thought this collection of essays tackles the dangers and hopes of living right now.

@astralstreeting just picked up an edition of this!

@astralstreeting yeah his older works are very difficult find! also every book is so different from each other so I would be wary of suggesting that interest or lack thereof in one might not indicate feelings about others!

@astralstreeting I've read The Trees and Erasure and they are both so good.

Fantastic book. Beautiful done - a story that is both wide-ranging and incredibly personally focused. Thought-provoking and touching.

@peoplelikebooks this one has been sitting on my shelf for a long time your review may be the push I need to take the leap for some reason it has intimidated me!

An enjoyable cyberpunk romp.