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Smoke, by Dan Vyleta
No one knows were the Smoke came from or how to get rid of it, but most people in Dan Vyleta’s alternate turn of the twentieth century England have a fairly clear idea of what the smoke means: sin. In Smoke, the rich are taught to control their emotions and live according to a strict moral code so that they don’t smoke. The poor are dismissed as naturally sinful and left to carry on with life as best they can. The smoke and the soot just reinforce the old boundary lines in England. After all, how can one argue with that someone who doesn’t smoke has the right to lead those who do, if one has been told since infancy that smoke is evil?
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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