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Apr 26, 2019JCLJoshN rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Charlie Jane does an amazing job of making the alien feel familiar and the familiar feel alien. Reviews have compared this to Ursula K. Le Guin, and that's spot on, but it also reminded me of Samuel R. Delany's New Wave explorations of relationships in strange societies on strange worlds. This is speculative fiction at its best, wrapping up planetology, biology, and sociology in a web of heartfelt but complicated emotions, spiked with sharp-witted dialogue.