Tender Morsels
by:
Margo Lanagan (author)
Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed...
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Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?
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Format: hardcover
ASIN: B002N2XEP6
Publish date: 2008-10-14
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Whew, that was an intense ride. I must say that I disagree with Bitch Mag's assessment of this book (caution if googling, spoilers abide within). There is grimness aplenty in this book, but also various joys, fierce love, weird-arse carnival-type themes (not the circus kind), a good helping of thorn...
I surfaced from this book this afternoon and have been unable to shake the sounds of it from my brain. One of the most vivid things for me about this story is the muscular way Lanagan uses language. There's so much that can be done with sheer force of words, and Lanagan plumbs those depths with skil...
Very odd and EXTREMELY weird!
On paper I should have loved this book. If I'm honest, I think the novel really lost me within the first few chapters as the story is pretty brutal. Not that I generally mind that sort of thing in a story, providing it fits within narrative, but here it just didn't.After the first few chapters, I ...
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