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Valenti expanded her award winning 2017 novella The Future is Blue (part 1 here) to follow up with Tetley Abednego and her life on the giant floating pile of garbage that is now home to one of the few surviving colonies of humans on Earth. This won‘t be for everyone, but I love me an Post Apocalyptic tale, and this was well done. Touches of magical realism - living in wax houses in Candletown!- it was a lot of sad fun, if that‘s a thing.

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I greatly enjoyed this different spin on a post-apocalyptic book, set in a society that developed on the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre after the sea rose and flooded everything. Tetley is an odd but fun protagonist. The short book is split into two parts, each of which ends in a way that thoroughly recontextualizes the rest of that part—both times I could tell there was something big coming, but not what. Warning: absolute tons of swearing 😂

Book 194🎧 4⭐️

This is a fun and riot of a book! I absolutely love the accent of the main character, she is hilarious 😂 Her name is Tetley or “Murder C*nt” as known around Garbage Town🤭😂

The Fuck-Wits ruined Earth, and this is what‘s left.

It‘s okay to be trash👌🏻❤️

Inventive, satirical and funny, this story follows the life of Tetley, a girl who grows up living on a patch of garbage floating in the ocean in a post-apocalyptic Earth. The audiobook narrated by Penelope Rawlins was great and captured Tetley's unique voice perfectly.

This book is nominated for the 2022 Hugo Best Novella award. #hugoawards #hugo2022

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April reading wrap-up! I finished 13 books, which I think makes it my most productive reading month so far this year!
🥇The Past is Red
🥈Boyfriend Material (re-read)
🥉Milk Fed

Wrap-up for Dewey's 24-hour readsthon yesterday! I finished 5 books (top) and read bits from 3 others. @DeweysReadathon

My TBR for Dewey's 24-hour readathon tomorrow! #readathon @DeweysReadathon

I'm not sure how to review this book. It's different than most post-apocalyptic writing, but that only added to the import of the message. I also enjoyed her afterward, and she succeeded in her goal.

Also, why can I never stop at the library to pick up *a* book? Where to start??

I had the enjoyable problem of wanting to quote almost every sentence from this book in my commonplace journal, but I somehow got it down to one page 🙂

I picked this one off the New Shelf at the library because it wasn‘t too long and has a fabulous cover. Sometimes I just want to be surprised by the story, and oh my goodness, this did not disappoint!

What might life be like in a post-apocalyptic world if you live on the great garbage heap? I absolutely loved the narrator in this story. Honest and also unreliable. A great story.

This was a wild ride of a post apocalyptic novel! The world is completely flooded. No land at all. The protagonist is living on a floating garbage pile that has been sorted and colonized by the survivors. Climate-change fiction.

For fans of The Boxcar Children.

This was kind of an odd book, more character then plot driven. Tetley is a wonderful character and her narrative voice has a lot of charm. The world building is a little …odd. But the vignettes, the moments, like when Tetley has her first sexual experience while listening to a women read a fancy lunch menu from 2005 in a sexy voice, and realizing none of them know what honey was, hits home.

Reread with audio! Tetley lives on a floating patch of garbage, the only solid ground left on a flooded earth. Tetley‘s not alone but she is the only one who knows the truth—Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world. The Past Is Red is an electrifying parable for this era of climate change, as bitterly optimistic and cheerfully furious as this dire hour demands, sure to steal that gorgeous garbage patch in your chest you call a heart.

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I‘ve been a huge fan of Valente‘s writing for quite a while yet- but this is actually the first book of hers that I‘ve listened to on audio! And I really loved it- the post-apocalyptic vision of earth is horrifying (after all, the characters literally live in Garbagetown- a floating island comprised of garbage) but tempered with humor and a surprisingly positive attitude from narrator Tetley. Great performance and fantastic writing as always!

Gorgeous cover.

Tetley loves her home, Garbagetown. It's all that's left of Earth. When Tetley learns a secret, tells the truth, does something unthinkable she becomes an outlaw. Yet she still loves. Even when she learns about a much bigger secret that leaves her even more jaded.

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Pub Day: 20 July 2021

Review: https://scepticalreading.com/2021/05/palate-cleansers/

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"My name is Tetley Abednego and I am the most hated girl in Garbagetown."

Tiny bit of sunshine, but it's still very cold outside.

ARC was given to me by my favourite indie.

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Out 7/20/21—Tetley lives on a floating patch of garbage, the only solid ground left on a flooded earth. Tetley‘s not alone but she is the only one who knows the simple, vital, and lifesaving truth that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world. The Past Is Red is an electrifying parable for this era of climate change, as bitterly optimistic and cheerfully furious as this dire hour demands. Read for Jan. #Bookland, Fantasy: New Release.