Mary Modern by Camille DeAngelis
My rating: 5/5 cats
my emotional development stopped at the “tell me a story” phase, and that’s all i expect from a book. i don’t need it to change my life, i don’t need it to answer every one of my questions, i don’t need it to teach me about any historical atrocity.
this is not a perfect book, but it is a deeply entertaining book. it’s true that the characters are largely unlikable, but that’s also true of Wuthering Heights and Jude the Obscure, two of my all-time favorites. if it’s the idea of cloning that is upsetting the more delicately religious/political folks, just power through—pretend it’s like a unicorn in a fantasy novel or the spontaneous combustion in Bleak House—it is something that is happening just to drive plot—it isn’t reeeeealll!! it is just genuine fun in the vein of liz jensen or when jonathan coe is being funny.
do.
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