A work of sweet literature.
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Hell of a first page. The rest is good, too, although the language gets a little too ornate at some moments. ( )

A story about stories and storytelling. ( )

Summer 2019 (Hugo Award Nominee 2019 - Novelette);

A powerful and sinister retelling of the radium girls, both with women and elephants who speak a form of ASL (and have their own acknowledged society/representation in the World Playing Field). This story is told in three recurring section, by three female voices (one female human in the future, one female radium worker & matriarcal elephant in the same period of the past).

It's tightknit, which I deeply approved of, but I felt at times that it was too slow for a story only around 100 pages. I need more gold, faster, and deeper. I love best the mythic sections of it. The story of the oldest matriarchal elephant who chased the world to discover The Stories was the part I best beloved of all this story and will take with me from it. ( )

It was just too confusing for me. ( )