To me Voices, volume 2 of Annals of the Western Shore, can be read entirely on its own and is a stand-alone masterpiece. To me, anyway, it has everything:
It's about growing up, family, a sacred house and household, a community of real and beloved people; about freedom, invasion, occupation, oppression, and more after (no spoilers); it's about books, libraries, reading, oral storytelling, tales, legends, heroes, history and myth; it's about mentors, teachers, liberators.
It's about a community of real people, a beloved community of fallible people and still they're beloved; it's about oppressors, about compromise and shades of gray, about overcoming polarization and demonization and the fact that the bad doesn't have to mean all-bad, and about pragmatism and the spirit of compromise and practical solutions that our world today seems so much badly to need; it's about anti-intellectualism and oppressive religious fundamentalism, but also that not all religion is fundamentalist ; it's about the sacred, and the depth of the sacred running through communities, homes, families, youth, and incredible mentors and teachers, books and libraries, about lineage and the sacred past leading into the sacred future, but without absolutism and without monopolies on truth; it tells a riveting dramatic story and at the same time it teaches as much wisdom as is within the power of a novel to be able to.
Obviously I'm in love with this book. It celebrates home, community, pragmatism, compromise, family, books, learning, both growing up and teaching the young, both spoken and written word, stories and storytelling, freedom, forgiveness, messy but satisfactory human compromise, and the practical but genuine greatness of our imperfect lives-- or at least it inspires me this way, and about this way to talk about it.
It's a storytelling and political and family and community drama of history and lineage and love and learning and teaching and love and tradition and human forgiveness and compromise; it's a storytelling and spiritual masterpiece.
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