Ruthanna Emrys' A Half-Built Garden
Giving this book a big FUCK YEAH, now let me try and tell y’all about it! So it’s set in 2083, and the world is mainly run by a series of environmental collectives, who've been turning around the damage from you, know, ~hand waves~, though there are still some nation-states and corporations hanging around (the latter on their own private islands). Anyway, our protagonist sees some weird environmental readings in the Chesapeake Bay and she and her wife take a walk with their baby and discover… an alien ship chilling in the water. And the aliens want to rescue humanity from their broken planet. And suddenly she's one of the main spokespeople for ALIEN DIPLOMACY. Also, pretty much everyone in this book is queer in some capacity and most of the main characters are Jewish! A Passover Seder is significant to the plot! Now there is a lot going on here, lots of explorations of alien culture and future earth culture, maybe it’s a little slow at times, but I totally loved all of it, just super fascinating and HOPEFUL and cool. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. A.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on July 26th.
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