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3.5

"I was an advocate for biodiversity and climate mitigation. Many of the absences did hurt. Yet those hurts were brief, and I got on. And part of me, the small secret part that I didn't like very much, looked down on those who couldn't."

There is a lot about this book I really like, the concepts of resurrection were great and I really could find myself identifying with Ruby as I too am a biologist and, despite everything, I also find myself able to "get on" as it were. Hard to say whether that's a good thing or not, but it's the truth of it. I really liked the idea of Grief as a syndrome of sort, a syndrome that both denotes you as sane for mourning such a massive loss and also turns you into socially insane.

I wish some parts of this book got more room to breathe and expand on the ideas but it was still a really interesting read!