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Charlotte

I finished *Grievers* by adrienne maree brown from . It's the kind of book that leaves you full of thought and goes around your head for a while.
Before anything else: Big go read it!
As a (on the surface) pandemic story released in 2021, it's impossible to read without thinking back to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, but this is really not a book about Covid.
For one, the disease is very different: Until the end of the book, it is not clear what causes it nor how it's spread, and there is very little effort from the authorities to study it. The novella is the portrait of a city breaking apart under the strain of this unknown affliction. (1/2 --> more in next post!)
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www.akpress.orgGrieversGrievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function and the unexpected magic that emerges when the debt of grief is cleared.
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Charlotte

@bookstodon (2/2) My interpretation - it's how the story reads to me; not sure it's what the author intended - is that the disease is a metaphor for systemic racism in the US. It's been known for a long time that systemic failures (in healthcare, environmental protection, policing, the justice system... the list goes on and on) affect black people in the US worse than any other population, yet (or because of that) there is little societal interest in understanding problems through this lens.
*Grievers* is about how people live under such a system, both as individuals and as a community.
And while the story is immensely sad, it is also full of fierce hope and resistance.
The sequel, *Maroons*, was released earlier this month. I cannot wait how the story continues!

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