Fast read. I liked the narrator. The ending felt forced, but the larger experience of the book is worth a not-so-believable/earned ending. It‘s easy to become immersed in her life.

Loved this book as much as I loved her book of stories, The Expense of a View. The poems are vivid, lonely, and carefully wrought. They‘re made of light and water. Many poems take place in Florida or Astoria, Oregon. Sorrow, memory, and surrealism hold these words together and make reading the book an experience.

Structurally similar to White Rage, Trace reads like a series of essays that don‘t fully predict where the next chapter will land. Probably useful for readers new to critiques of majority narratives and how those delete and render invisible minoritized people/experiences. Part travelogue, part nature writing, part memoir, and fully a critique of simplistic histories, Trace mixes many parts to examine the fragmentation of public and private memory.

The Whole World at Once is featured this week at Snowflakes in a Blizzard. I've shared some details about the writing of the book and about myself.

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Fantastic, compelling, horrific look at a future world. I listened to it while running, and I do run at night so few times it felt too dark for the book‘s darkness—it‘s a deep examination of human cruelty, survival, empathy, and pain. The narrator is interesting and smart. The characters so real. The audiobook is read by a woman with the perfect voice. I immediately moved onto the sequel when I finished this. #readthis

I listened to the audio book of this over the course of several runs. It was easy to listen to and the narrative is horrifying and compelling in the surreal way that reality can work. Well researched. Well told. Anyone who is anti-capitalism will find it an especially harrowing story.

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Here's the book release party (back in February before the pandemic changed everything).

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