![]() ![]() This volume will appeal to fans of Valente’s characteristic vivid prose and anyone wanting a sketch of what might remain after the climate apocalypse. Tetley’s distinctive voice and cheerful resilience in the face of misfortune make her a delightful guide through this bleak future, but her mistreatment by nearly everyone she encounters, along with her excoriations of humans of the past (the “fuckwits”), makes for a melancholy reading experience. And though 'The Refrigerator Monologues' is a fair-sized step away from her usual realm of fantasy and mythology - its set in a world of superheroes - it. ![]() In the course of her wandering, she finds love and discovers a shocking secret about her world. Valente has been one of my favorite authors ever since I stumbled upon 'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' (yes, thats the title). ![]() In the title novella, Tetley is 29 and still Garbagetown’s star dissident: while others dream of a 21st-century-style life of ease, Tetley loves her life in Garbagetown in spite of the ostracization that has forced her to strike out on her own, and she refuses to sacrifice Garbagetown’s stability to chase a misguided fantasy of dry land. In “The Future Is Blue,” reprinted here, 19-year-old Tetley Abednego recounts the events that made her “the most hated girl in Garbagetown,” a far-future settlement built on an island of floating garbage. Valente expands on her 2016 short story “The Future Is Blue” with an entertaining and moving peregrination that sometimes raises more questions than it answers. ![]()
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