Caveat: I got a copy of this book free from the publishers because I'm reviewing it for Strange Horizons. The full review will be appearing there soon, so this is only a few short comments for my own record. The gist of which is: I love this book, it's outstanding. I tend to like post-apocalyptic narratives anyway, but if there's a flaw to that particular sub-genre it's that it often wallows in melodrama. My preferred explorations of post-apocalyptic stories tend to be the quiet ones - the ones that have something to say and who say it with restraint. And that's what Sweet Fruit, Sour Land does - told from the point of view of two protagonists, it's an allegory of missing things, of fruit and absence and what it means to be alien in a world that has no place for history any more. And within all this dislocation, resistance is framed as the idea of making connections, of building relationships instead of tearing them down, and it's lovely and horrifying and fragile and so simply told that all the work going on underneath to build this story barely registers.