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A Far Country
A Far Country | Daniel Mason
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When drought and war threaten their land and her brother Isaias leaves their remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation to seek a better life in a southern city, Isabel tries to follow him, only to find that he has vanished.
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Robotswithpersonality
A Far Country | Daniel Mason
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Mehso-so

Poverty and classism suck.
Full marks to Mason for making an entire book that really never wanders far from those points.
There's a decent thread of: communities without arable land and infrastructure are hit hard when natural disasters occur, drought, flood, so might be a bit of cli fi?
1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? It's hard to nail down the time and place, but I think that might have been purposeful, speaks to the universal plight that is a group of people who cannot stay in their hometown because it offers no future, but have to try and make a life in a teeming city where the lines between the well-to-do and the rest have long since been drawn, and opportunities for improvement of circumstances are scarce. 3d
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Slow paced but that's not to say nothing happens, there are a number of significant events experienced by the protagonist, but it's interesting to realize that nevertheless her circumstances largely remain unchanged.
I wouldn't pick this up if you heard about the spiritual/mystical/magical thread running through it, it's more a rarely mentioned possibility than an actual plot point.
3d
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 I do continue to love Daniel Mason's writing, but I don't think I'd recommend this book to anyone who wasn't head over heels for North Woods and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, while I remember a certain sadness from his other writing, this particular book is inescapably bleak.

⚠️animal abuse, animal death, starvation, extreme poverty, landgrab/gentrification, violent conflict, child death
3d
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huntersmom1977
A Far Country | Daniel Mason
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Pickpick

After going through my bookshelves, I forgot I had this gem. It was a great read but I was totally confused of the time era. In some parts it would have me thinking it was the present era with the hairstyles, etc and completely jump to a whole other level. But all in all, I enjoyed it.