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"Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the footsteps of her late researcher father, who has a physical model of Detroit's history and losses set up in their basement. She dusts it off and begins tracking the sick and dying, discovering patterns, finding comrades in curiosity, conspiracies for the fertile ground of the city, and the unexpected magic that emerges when the debt of grief is cleared." -- Amazon.com… (más)
brown has been on the periphery of my reading life for a little while now. I keep seeing her books and writing recommended by folks I know, but I hadn't gotten around to reading her until Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Hers was one of my favorite stories there, so I set out to read more of her work soon.
This book certainly did not disappoint. The Grief itself reminds me of Octavia Cade's The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, but goes in a whole different direction with it. Cade's book is concerned mostly with the lost of species, habitat, and nature, while brown is concerned with people, justice, and community -- the Black community of Detroit specifically.
Both are about how to move forward when you've lost so much. This is about activism -- showing up for your community, filling in gaps, honoring and recording the losses. So devastating and so beautiful at the same time. ( )
"Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the footsteps of her late researcher father, who has a physical model of Detroit's history and losses set up in their basement. She dusts it off and begins tracking the sick and dying, discovering patterns, finding comrades in curiosity, conspiracies for the fertile ground of the city, and the unexpected magic that emerges when the debt of grief is cleared." -- Amazon.com
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This book certainly did not disappoint. The Grief itself reminds me of Octavia Cade's The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, but goes in a whole different direction with it. Cade's book is concerned mostly with the lost of species, habitat, and nature, while brown is concerned with people, justice, and community -- the Black community of Detroit specifically.
Both are about how to move forward when you've lost so much. This is about activism -- showing up for your community, filling in gaps, honoring and recording the losses. So devastating and so beautiful at the same time. (