James Dunk

And at the end, she sets out to write this history and this true story of Sushila.

And I suppose there's real power in the recalling of these histories, even if it was to try to reconcile them.

My only isolation reading, very successful isolation reading, was to read some science fiction by N.K.

Jemisin.

I'd heard about this at actually a history conference.

And these wonderful, wonderful books...

about, I don't know, I suppose about race, about the planet, about the environment, about human relations with other species.

It's all set in this kind of really fascinating world in which a group of people have been taken and trained to be able to manipulate the earth.

And then when that project of manipulating the earth and garnishing great wealth and power from the earth breaks and falls apart,

Those group of people is then blamed, despised for the work that they can do, their power and what they've done to the earth.

And so it's this really interesting book of books about rewriting history, about those sorts of tensions we discussed earlier.

And it's also wrapped around this really sad moment of,

trauma and loss, which defines the whole books as well.