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CBR15 Passport! Book #1 – A book that is Not For Moi.

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

January 31, 2023 by narfna 9 Comments

Oof, this was not for me. Like, so not for me that I maybe shouldn’t even be writing a review, because my brain just bounced off this after about ten pages and then just kept bouncing harder and harder. This is a speculative fiction, experimental novel by British poet Salena Godden about an anthropomorphized version of Death (here called Mrs. Death, personified by an older Black woman) and her connections to/conversations with a person called Wolf. In addition to the the prose actually feeling like […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: British literature, CBR15Passport, lit-fic, literary fiction, Mrs Death Misses Death, narfna, poetry, Salena Godden, speculative

narfna's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: British literature, CBR15Passport, lit-fic, literary fiction, Mrs Death Misses Death, narfna, poetry, Salena Godden, speculative ·
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