While this is listed as fantasy or horror or magical realism, it read to me as a kind of fable about ignorance about technology in a kind of lost future. There’s the famous Arthur C Clarke idea about technology “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And I think that’s at play here. In a village, which feels like a kind of post-apocalyptic (and the kind of fall is not spelled out here) we have healers working with patients to cure them of illnesses. […]
Follow me to Ground – Sue Rainsford (2020)
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford