#Arboreality by #RebeccaCampbell from #Stelliform Press won the #UrsulaLeGuin Prize. It's so good. A beautiful, lyrical, melancholic vision of human lives continuing after climate catastrophe that ultimately affirms our continuing need to connect, celebrate, love and survive. And the importance of books to that endeavour. As a character says early on, trying to save a library collection, "even if the satellites work... We're going to need books again, for a while at least. Maybe forever." @bookstodon

"As a child in Puerto Rico, his grandfather had told him that ceiba roots were the braids of hexed kings trailing them as they plunged to the underworld in slow katabasis."
Sordidez - E.C. Conde
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