Reviews

The Tomorrow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence

mistypane's review

4.0

Really enjoyed both the book and the afterword 'Margaret Laurence knew that life is like the river, fluctuation and contradiction. But she wished to remind us that the exigencies of a world in flux do not exempt us from a simple human duty, the duty to imagine and re-imagine, to strive with compassion to plumb the hearts of our fellow strangers.'

dessa's review

3.0

Really neat to read some Laurence, because I haven’t read much of her. Neat to read these stories about an era I’m not familiar with — the British pulling out of Ghana — and interested to read them as Laurence, too, pulling out of Africa — realizing that she can’t understand the subject matter as well as, well, an African. Still tender, though, and man — she writes like a whip cracking, like a mist rising out of the ground slower than you can see until it’s inexplicably all around you.