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I've started it already but it's a tome so I'll focus on this in April. The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Finished 25 Apr. 5.0 stars
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Finished 25 Apr. 5.0 stars
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I read this a year or two ago and liked it a lot more than I expected to. I hope you like it.

I read this a year or two ago and liked it a lot more than I expected to. I hope you like it.

Another in my giant list of "picked for me somewhere along the line and I haven't read it yet" challenge books.



I like that it's a new perspective (for me) of what happens to the displaced after the war. My mom, who was Scottish, was a child during it in Edinburgh, with her dad gone a lot of 6 years as a soldier and her uncle was a prisoner of war (Japanese, but not sure where) and came back quite damaged.
That sounds like something I’ll really enjoy, and it doesn’t get focused on often enough. I think about it regarding the US Civil War too- not just the number of people who waited months then years for someone to come home, having to extrapolate from the fact that they didn’t that they died, but never knowing for sure, but also the people who did come home to find their property destroyed and their family gone, no idea where.


And done. Well worth reading for the post war displaced person history and settings- kind of weak on character development/romance storylines.
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