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Books of 2024: TRASHLANDS by Alison Stine.

Okay my sisyphean task is temporarily VANQUISHED, the next book has been SELECTED, and I shall be reading Appalachian apocalyptica about garbage and art and parenting and community!

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Something about seeing these two particular albums together makes me very happy. As an artist, I think I found my next pallet...

But also, my fictional album affectionately makes references to the Trashlands, which is essentially the garbage house of my heart, so... Needless to say, these two albums speak volumes to me and my gay little soul

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Trashlands by Alison Stine

Rating: 5/5

Discussion: I'm not a fiction person. I rarely read novels, usually, and don't love short stories. I want the abstractions and emotive tugs of poetry, or I want the learning of nonfiction. But Stine's novel Trashlands needs to be read -- and read by you, and me, and often.

Set in a post-apocalyptic (ongoing apocalyptic?) Appalachia, after great floods and other climate emergencies have rendered twenty-first century luxuries like the Internet and the electric grid only a tale from old-timers, Trashlands presents a hopeful hopeless future for Appalachia in times of horrific need. Folks pick plastic out of rivers and creeks, and sell it for money; plastic is the only valuable currency, and it is abundant, everywhere, and useful.

Trashlands is the name of the place and also the strip club in this quasi-village. This book centers women's perspectives in ways that you rarely find in post-apocalyptic literature. What IS it like, to be a woman in a place without legal protections, to be a women somewhere that men rule with impunity? Stine takes these questions head on.

Trashlands is a great read that I couldn't put down -- I read it, in its entirety, in one long travel day. I hope that more people will read it.

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Alison Stine

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Happy Monday! . I’m on the blog tour for Trash Lands by Alison Stine today. In this dystopian futuristic world, the environment has finally shown the effects that they keep warning us about. Global warming caused oceans to swell and the coastline to redesign itself, so that whole states have disappeared. And plastic collection and exchange is the new economy. Impactful, disturbing, and compelling- this SciFy is a must read. (full review and excerpt on my blog - link in bio). . I’ve been without a washing machine for over two weeks and the new one was finally delivered first thing this morning - yay! I guess you all know what I’ll be doing all day. And I’m unusually happy about it. ❤️ . What are you happy about this morning? . . . . #allthebooksoct21 #underthecovers #trashlands #alisonstine #sciencefictionbooks #scifi #sciencefiction #scififantasy #dystopian #dystopianfiction #dystopianbooks #outtomorrow #bookstagram #bookreview #bookreviews #bookreviewblog #bookreviewblogger #bookreviewsofinstagram #bookblogger #bookbloggersofinstagram #bookbloggerlife #halloweenvibes #halloweendecor #fallbookstagram #fallvibes #bookdragons #bookdragon #book #bookrecommendations #booklover (at Lake Davidson) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVc8lioL9oP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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// TBR 2021 (5 / ?) : Trashlands - Alison Stine