A review by bluestarfish
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.0

Gavir's coming-of-age story is a hard one. Living a life of a slave he has to reckon with power and loyalty, betrayal and trust. What do any of these mean as a slave? Or what do any of them mean as someone who has runaway and is searching for a way to live? This, again, is not a story of the rich and powerful people (although of course they exert they overreaching influence) but of those living around the edge and in the margins of the powerful. Their hopes and failures, dreams and lives are just as important and worthy of stories says this book and Ursula Le Guin. And stories are the way we make meaning and understand how to live.

Re-reading the trilogy. [2023]