Review: Beautiful must-read story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2013
This was a beautiful read. I was captivated by the story of a young woman in the midst of her clan's ritual preparations--she's going through the process of becoming an adult, which involves a large amount of pain (kind of like what we go through in our journey to adulthood and the separation from our parents). She's basically put on the market and must find a match within a specified time frame or face separation from her clan. The heart wants what the heart wants, though, and when Liu's heart-stone calls out to a woman--well, this is taboo.Lydia Sharp is a wonderful writer and I just enjoyed this so much, and I felt sad at the notion of anyone out in the world who feels that they can't be with the person they love because their society has decided that their love is unacceptable. How soul crushing that must be. Lydia, in a short work, explores these emotions surrounding having feelings that go against the rest of one's culture. I really feel that everyone should read stories like this so that we can all develop our empathic and compassionate parts of ourselves. We really need to put ourselves in the other person's shoes to understand what they're going through. (Uh-oh, I feel a soap box coming on here!)This was lovely.