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edit:downgrading this another star because I haven't gotten over how this story gave its protagonist an abusive parent and then ressolved the story in a way that implied that situation could be fixed by the abused person finding an outlet for their feelings and making an effort to understand the abuser. And I still feel furious and hurt every time I see the title.
Powerful
But there's one story beat near the end that I just don't buy.
Powerful
But there's one story beat near the end that I just don't buy.
Very referential. Very literary. Also very good.
Though it doesn't pass Bechdel
Though it doesn't pass Bechdel
I have a lot of feelings about this many of which come down to wishing this ending was the real ending, that you could kill a project with one televised protest and proof the permits weren't filed.
Good for what it is which is an old lady murdering everyone slightly on her nerves.
So...
Pros: master level writing, pacing, drama, etc. ownvoices wrt the immigrant experience. Bitter gorgeous intergenerational issues. Courtroom scenes are gold.
Con: the story centers on disability (especially an autism cure) and, given that is has the multiple viewpoint character format with many views expressed, it is really disturbing to me that it does not contain the viewpoints of the disabled characters. It's clear that the author is very familiar with the feelings of the parents of those characters. However leaving a well formed experience of the disabled children, it lets the parental experience of disability stand as the definitional one. Every other point any character makes is subject to rebuttal by the other characters but the abscence of the disabled child voice leaves the parental feelings unchallenged.
I recognize that I may not be best to determine that and would be very interested to hear from disabled voices on this, especially actuallyautistic adults who may have had parents pushing the way these parents did when they were children.
Pros: master level writing, pacing, drama, etc. ownvoices wrt the immigrant experience. Bitter gorgeous intergenerational issues. Courtroom scenes are gold.
Con: the story centers on disability (especially an autism cure) and, given that is has the multiple viewpoint character format with many views expressed, it is really disturbing to me that it does not contain the viewpoints of the disabled characters. It's clear that the author is very familiar with the feelings of the parents of those characters. However leaving a well formed experience of the disabled children, it lets the parental experience of disability stand as the definitional one. Every other point any character makes is subject to rebuttal by the other characters but the abscence of the disabled child voice leaves the parental feelings unchallenged.
I recognize that I may not be best to determine that and would be very interested to hear from disabled voices on this, especially actuallyautistic adults who may have had parents pushing the way these parents did when they were children.
Plus or minus some racism, I think this may be the ideal platonic form of what it is. Unfortunately what it is seems to be totally unnecessary anxiety.
It scratched my Xena Warrior Princess itch and then it came for my feelings!