![]() ![]() The metropolis of Ambergris is a cacophony of sights, smells, textures and sounds. Duncan, on the other hand, feels it is his duty to edit and comment on Janice’s manuscript without her knowledge, so readers know what she got right, and what she guessed so wrongly on. Janice feels it is her duty to truthfully chronicle her family, Duncan’s youth and education, his illicit affair with his student Mary Sabon, and the ups and downs of his and Janice’s careers, as their city is taken over from beneath. Shriek, An Afterword, is narrated by Janice Shriek, and is her attempt at a biography of her brother, Duncan Shriek. I’m sure I’m not the only one to be seduced by Vandermeer’s Ambergris. This was another one of those books that jumped off the bookshelf at me, screamed at me to read it, seduced me, allowed me to escape into it’s pages for an entire week, and then left me. ![]() ![]() I’m slowly working my way up, chronologically, to Finch. ![]()
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