pickI really liked this, thanks #tob2025 longlist! I was avoiding it based on the blurb, which made it sound like Rainy is pursuing a runaway wife through a dystopian landscape both twee and surreal. This is misleading, as Rainy‘s wife dies 80 pages in, and the surreal elements are mainly due to the unknown and therefore somewhat terrifying motives of others and not to an anthropomorphized Lake Superior.
Larkken It explores themes similar to Station Eleven and features some very beautiful sentences.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Station Eleven: A novel 1w
Station Eleven: A novelKitta @Larkken I loved station eleven - would I enjoy this too? 1w
Larkken @Kitta I think so! There‘s huge parallels to SE‘s discussion of art and community to this book (MC is a bassist, his wife a bookstore owner). This book has more of a slow-decline into the end of civ vibe rather than a traumatic pandemic, which was nice to me, and I found them both to be rather similarly intrinsically hopeful. Hope that helps! 1w
Kitta @Larkken yes! Thank you! I like post apocalyptic books, especially pandemic and quick destruction books but maybe a change of pace of the end of the world would be interesting. 1w
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