5/11/2023 0 Comments Grass by sheri s tepper![]() ![]() ![]() She's got Nurture, Motherhood, Determination, Communication and Facilitation tags pinned to her lapels. The settled protagonist is Marjorie Westriding Yrarier. And Grass' hunt-addicted aristocracy on their estates called estancias is certainly a glib-tipped dart at the historically-suffocating patriarchy of the Medieval Ages. Befittingly, father figures are adversarial and/or deluded, drawn by their hate and bigotry. There's usually a pillow fight going on in the subtext flavoring an ecofeminist PoV without the pithy seasonings sometimes affecting the sex wars. ![]() ![]() But everyone should read at least one of her novels. More often than naught, however, it seems these complex mixings of sidebar stories into the arterial plotting, plus a shaker or two of excess characters with a modicum of personality peppering landscapes that are divergent, alien, and elusive to visualize -well, it tastes overly-spiced, leaving the climax and resolution heavy with feeling mere accomplishment for just finishing the novel.īut I wouldn't change a single, solitary word of the marvelous alphabet soup of Grass. She's always stirring the word cauldron for a variation on the standard recipes, and using a fanciful spoon like broomsticks from Fantasia to give us one delightful taste after another. Then she sat down and put her head between her trembling knees and tried to think of nothing at all. She put the dry, crumbling thing on Lees Bergrem's table. ![]()
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