#unsettled ground

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round one

Casey

Jeanie

Jet Siquliak

Waterbottle

Tanner Reeves

Voting ended onJun 7

Casey

From How To Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune

Canonically asexual

Jeanie

From Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

Headcanoned as aromantic and asexual

Tanner Reeves 

From The Green Creek series by TJ Klune

Canonically aromantic

“It’s…platonic? Like, we’re not fucking or anything. But we trust each other. We love each other. I wanted to have that connection with someone. And being aromantic made that harder.” He glanced at Chris, his expression softening. “There’s no-one I trust more. I know he’ll have my back no matter what. And I’ve got his. We’re in tune with each other. It made sense for us.”

Waterbottle

From Friendship Test

Canonically aroace

Jet Siquliak

From The Penumbra Podcast

Canonically aroace

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Critic Ilana Masad has accomplished a rare feet -- making my nerdy self want to read a literary novel! Claire Fuller's new Unsettled Ground follows 51-year-old twins who've never left home, now forced to face some ugly family secrets and real-world difficulties after the death of their mother.

"How often are such characters given rich, complex, and interior lives, complete with sorrows, talents, opinions, and flaws?" Masad asks. "Unsettled Ground does just that." Check out her full review here.

-- Petra

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I’ve read two books in the last two days that both emotionally wrecked me for very different reasons and I don’t know when I’ll be able to recover halp

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Unsettled Ground' by Claire Fuller has an asexual/aromantic coded protagonist (Jeanie) - little to no interest in sex or relationships but the words aro/ace aren't used

cool, thank you!!

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"Unsettled Ground", by Claire Fuller.

"O, will you find me an acre of land, Savoury sage, rosemary and thyme, Between the sea foam, and the sea sand, Or never be a true love of mine.", from Scarborough Fair.

"The worries of seventy years - the money, the infidelity, the small deceits - are cut away, and when she looks at her hand she can no longer tell where she ends and dog begins. They are one substance, enormous and free, as is the sofa, the stone floor, the walls, the cottage thatch, the snow, the sky. Everything connected.", from Unsettled Ground.

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Title: Unsettled Ground | Author: Claire Fuller | Publisher: Penguin (2022)

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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller #BookReview #BlogTour #PublicationDay

My turn today on the #UnsettledGround #BlogTour 🤩 So happy to review this amazing book on publication day! Congratulations @ClaireFuller2 ! @hannahksx @

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for…

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Unsettled Ground Review

My first finished book of 2021!

I got an advanced reader copy of Unsettled Ground through Netgalley.

This book features a Bitchy Literary Caroline™ — is there a conspiracy amongst authors to have every single character named Caroline be an icy monster? Please advise.

This specific Bitchy Literary Caroline™ is the wife of the landlord of the cottage where Jeanie and Julius, 51-year-old twins live with their mother, Dot, who dies suddenly. Jeanie and Julius rely heavily on each other and do not have other friends or relations in their social circle, so they do not have a support network to help them through their grief. In addition, the twins find that Dot has lied to them over the years, so their grief and isolation is compounded by a reevaluation of their lives and themselves.

The entire tone of this book is bleak. The twins cannot seem to catch a break and their life essentially falls apart in the wake of their mother’s passing. Jeanie and Julius’ relationship becomes strained because of their reduced circumstances and need to become a more cohesive team to both survive and come to terms with the lies about themselves and each other they had come to believe.

Because the story was so bleak, I found it difficult to “like” this book, but I would still recommend it because it was powerful. Jeanie’s character arc, especially, was memorable and impactful, as she makes strides to become more independent and to know herself better. Three solid stars.