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Cargando... So Lucky (2018)por Nicola Griffith
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The writing style and prose are simplistic and the plotting speeds ahead extremely quickly. A supernatural/metaphysical element is unconvincing and eye-roll inducing when it makes one of its occasional appearances. A threat of serial killers targeting MS patients on a cross country crime wave headed for the protagonist is, while unlikely and by-the-numbers-spare, at least something. The protagonist spends the whole of this short book in a state of bitterness and unpleasantness. Not much to recommend here for me. ( ) Seemingly inspired by many things in the author's life, this swift little book seems too odd to truly get to the heart of the book, people with Multiple Sclerosis, as the focus becomes the main character losing reality a bit. And the story is also too brief to really get to the heart of the difficulties I can only imagine that the author and main character has faced. Even the main character instantly receiving a diagnosis of MS happens so quickly! In real life, I'm sure it takes months to diagnose ANYTHING. It's a quick little book but I'm sure it was an important project to have a book focus on MS and at least it now exists for the sufferers of MS. **Morning News Tournament of Books #113 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away--they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story you've been told, the story you'vetold yourself, is not true? How can you fight if you can't trust your body? Who can you rely on if those around you don't have your best interests at heart, and the systems designed to help do more harm than good? Mara makes a decision and acts, but her actions unleash monsters aimed squarely at the heart of her new community. This is fiction from the front lines, incandescent and urgent, a narrative juggernaut that rips through sentiment to expose the savagery of America's treatment of the disabled and chronically ill. But So Lucky also blazes with hope and a ferocious love of self, of the life that becomes possible when we stop believing lies. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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