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Cargando... You Feel It Just Below the Ribspor Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am 50/50 on this one. I absolutely loved the autobiographical style and footnotes that told much of the “true” history of the alternate reality and disputed much of the story. However, I did find it slower moving than I would’ve liked for not much of a payoff at the end. It was definitely different and I am now intrigued enough to want to listen to the authors podcast. An interesting take on a future world in which violence and war is eliminated, by forgetting your familial ties. We hear this from amthe perspective of a doctor, as she grows up in war times and develops the method that's eventually used across the world to help us forget. I highly recommend this unique perspective on a dystopia (utopian?) society.
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HTML: A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save. Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly decimates humanity and strips her of friends and family. Devastated by grief and loneliness, she emotionally exiles herself, avoiding relationships or allegiances, and throws herself into her workdisengagement that serves her when the war finally ends, and The New Society arises. To ensure a lasting peace, The New Society forbids anything that may cause tribal loyalties, including traditional families. Suddenly, everyone must live as Miriam has chosen todisconnected and unattached. A researcher at heart, Miriam becomes involved in implementing this detachment process. She does not know it is the beginning of a darkly sinister program that will transform this new world and the lives of everyone in it. Eventually, the harmful effects of her research become too much for Miriam, and she devises a secret plan to destroy the system from within, endangering her own life. But is her "confession" honestor is it a fabrication riddled with lies meant to conceal the truth? A jarring and uncanny tale of loss, trauma, and the power of human connection and deception, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a portrait of a disturbing alternate world eerily within reach, and an examination of the difficult choices we must make to survive in it. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A book which is either a memoir or a fictional construct is found and published with commentary from state censors/cultural critics. It consists of the experiences of the creator of a complex form of therapy developed in response to deeply rooted childhood traumas on a universal level. These traumas are the result of WWI not ending. The therapy is meant to erase the ties between parent and child, with the goal being to simultaneously wipe out any already existing childhood memories of trauma.
This was a complex and engaging piece of grounded sci-fi. Really dug it. ( )