I figured I’d give you the biggest question first, which is: What does liberty look like to you? but obviously not everyone in the book, nor in our current world, is free. “Liberty,” as a word itself, suggests freedom in all senses: emotionally, physically, politically, economically, etc. Jacqueline Alnes: The Statue of Liberty is arguably one of the major characters in this book, or at least one of the most noticeable threads. I spoke to Yuknavitch over Zoom about living as part of an ecosystem, expressing iterations of grief, and how novels can jostle us into new ways of being. And, the novel offers hope in the idea that stories, ever-changing, have the power to carry Laisvė-and others-somewhere new. From impassioned letters exchanged between Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the real-life French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty, and his invented lover, Aurora to segments written from the plural point of view of the Statue’s workers to characters haunted by devastating personal histories to raids conducted by a dystopian future government on citizens, the book chronicles violences big and small that have shaped the course of humanity. Thrust isn’t based so much on plot as it is a kaleidoscopic confluence of different storylines.
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