![]() ![]() The mermaid embodies a kind of diaspora narrative, willing to destroy everything around her if she can hold onto something that feels stable, if she can have hope. Within The Salt Grows Heavy is an exploration of the body - who owns your body, who sees it, what can it create? There’s a kind of anger at bodies, a frustration with the fact that the body can heal from harm, that time sometimes doesn’t matter when it comes to healing, and the way that simply having a body gives people a uniting language with which to communicate. ![]() There is still empathy, we still ache for the Plague Doctor and the mermaid, but the book does not pretend that pain is a mystery, creating a tapestry out of trauma. Throughout the entire book, there are illustrations of the kind of common, cruel indifferences that often mark out older fairy tales. These moments are hard truths delivered in between gruesome playfulness. Small asides from the mermaid, our first-person narrator, provide a mirror for the story. Kim.Įchoes of a dozen fairy tales reverberate through the book. Art by Morgan Sorensen Design by Esther S. ![]() ![]() Image: Used with permission from Tor Nightfire, an imprint of Tor Publishing Group, a trade division of Macmillan Publishers. ![]()
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