A review by mmccombs
Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch
challenging
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This was a wild, twisty, time travel-y ride. I sometimes had a hard time following the action, but I loved the circular plot and everything it had to say about our (dis)connection to the Earth. It was hopeful and very human, also very kinky! Give me more talking whales and turtles and grumpy worms. I don’t think this is a book that will be universally embraced, but it was full of stunning imagery, prose, and messages.
"Do not be afraid. We are with you into the everything. We are in the air and the water and the earth, the plants and the animals. We are even in the night sky; we are made from everything in the cosmos. We arrive, we leave, we emerge, we dissolve. We are in the meteor, in this tsumami, in all the bones of whales on the floors of the world's oceans. All the fish and creatures, all the roots and branches of trees, everything reaching into everything else.”
"Do not be afraid. We are with you into the everything. We are in the air and the water and the earth, the plants and the animals. We are even in the night sky; we are made from everything in the cosmos. We arrive, we leave, we emerge, we dissolve. We are in the meteor, in this tsumami, in all the bones of whales on the floors of the world's oceans. All the fish and creatures, all the roots and branches of trees, everything reaching into everything else.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Xenophobia