5/22/2023 0 Comments Elysium by jennifer marie brissett![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, it becomes apparent that the book is about a love shared by a collection of souls. A skyborne spot of green light, a wandering elk, bursts of computer code, an owl on the hunt, and a sorrowful gathering of friends and lovers, are but some elements within a panoply of leitmotifs persisting across the novel’s repeated narrative dissonances. Initially set in a seemingly contemporary, English-speaking, multicultural metropolis (implied but never explicitly stated to be New York), the book for the first several chapters seems naught save a series of vignettes of the inhabitants’ love lives, albeit interrupted by bizarre incongruities. Brissett explores something altogether different. Maybe that’s fair, but Elysium, unlike Stephenson’s oeuvre, is not the thrill of seeing new possibilities in the technologies, economics, or knowledge that make up (or might one day make up) what humanity calls “progress.” So although there is a futuristic setting and casual reference to advanced technologies, these are very much incidental to the story. It came up under the category of “readers who enjoyed Neal Stephenson also bought…” in the Amazon recommendations list. ![]() ![]() I bought Jennifer Marie Brissett‘s Elysium as a download for my Kindle on a lark early this week. ![]()
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