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Review: Salvage – Jennifer Mills (Picador)
Every new novel from Jennifer Mills is a fascinating puzzle, gorgeously
rendered and emotionally rich. While all the pieces are there, in plain sight,
from the moment you open the first page, they reveal their picture gradually,
with precision and grace.
In
The Airways those pieces created a haunting exploration of gender,
violence and embodiment; in
Dyschronia, a surreal eulogy to time, the truth
and the world as we know it.
In
Salvage, these pieces combine into a near future struggling to adjust to
the consequences of a warmed world. Rising sea levels and severe weather have
led to mass-migration, social instability and the renegotiation of power and
economic structures.
In the midst of all of these sweeping destabilisations, people are just trying
to get by. The rich search for ways to escape any real hardship, while the poor
salvage what they can. Family remains family, as supportive and problematic as
they have always been."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
