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adam_nie's review
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This book appealed to the same parts of me that loved David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Long after my Cloud Atlas phase ended, I still love on Heavens On Earth and plan to reread it someday.
Three narrators, centuries apart, cling to language as a vehicle for identity. Boullosa takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to its logical conclusion, suggesting that humanity itself cannot exist without language. While I don't buy into that claim entirely (it's implications for people with some cognitive disabilities are troubling), she uses it to great effect in this soft sci-fi novel.
Three narrators, centuries apart, cling to language as a vehicle for identity. Boullosa takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to its logical conclusion, suggesting that humanity itself cannot exist without language. While I don't buy into that claim entirely (it's implications for people with some cognitive disabilities are troubling), she uses it to great effect in this soft sci-fi novel.
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