Friday Chatter: Otherworldly
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It’s a truism that autistic readers are often drawn to non-human fictional creatures, and Andi C. Buchanan’s “Below Salt-Heavy Tides” deals with that theme in a very nuanced way - portraying the selkie protagonist feeling out of place among humans, longing for Earth, recognizing something like them in their new planet’s oceans while also recognizing how profoundly unlike them it actually is. What are your feelings about identifying with non-human creatures? Is there a kind you identify with in particular?
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