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Radiance, by Catherynne Valente

Radiance: A Novel - Catherynne M. Valente

Earlier this week, I had a discussion with a history professor about how we could help students better understand justice and war crimes. This professor exclusively readers non-fiction. She hates speculative fiction. The majority of what I read is fiction. We talked about how we could use examples of war criminals and discussion to try and help the students understand the tangled mess of ethics and realpolitik. But through the whole thing, all I could think about was a line from The Reader that helped me understand better than anything else I’d read. The conversation came back to me when I started reading Catherynne Valente’s new novel, Radiance. I don’t have enough superlatives to talk about this exploration of story and truth. The book is the most incredible thing I’ve read in a long time.

 

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.