bisexual-nightmare on this post
Please, *please* faff about with this!! Six Harvests is such an excellent book (my first foray into your original work, I’ve got picking up the rest on my to-do list) and from what you’ve shared this is. An amazing approach. I’m struggling with pandemic-relevant/pandemic-related media rn because it feels so...current? Almost too current. But this is exactly the kind of sideways fantastical realism approach that is just absolutely fascinating, and also your writing is incredible. Good luck!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed Six Harvests! It does feel like the particular blend of surrealism and mythology and real history has....thematic appropriateness for the times we live in.
Six Harvests is I think a much more mature book than my others, probably because I’m a more mature writer eight years on, but I hope you enjoy the earlier ones as well. If you liked the fantasticity of Six Harvests you’d probably enjoy Nameless or Trace the most of the others.
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I would read this. I would also love for it to have a bit of a rashoman style, because I definitely feel like people I know have had wildly different experiences and understandings of the events of the last year.
That’s actually kind of where I’m going with it! There’s an introduction to establish what’s going on, and then four “books” covering the four different characters I’m working on. It probably won’t be super precise -- like it won’t be four views of one story, but one story that progresses through the stories of four different people, but that’s a very high-fantasy way to go about things which is how I’m thinking this will probably go.
So far the characters I’m fleshing out are a the white-collar work-from-home single quarantiner, a mother who left her lower-paying job to look after/homeschool their kids while her husband continues to work from home in his higher-paying one, a fuloughed hourly worker whose mental health has severely deteriorated during quarantine and who is coping mainly through self-medication, and a teenager who is consciously dropping out of remote learning (and whose mother plays a significant role as a nurse who is frontline/essential and thus can’t be as present for her family as she’d like).