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Peaces

de Helen Oyeyemi

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"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming touches, like ingredients for their favorite breakfast. They seem to be the only people onboard, until Otto discovers a secretive woman who issues a surprising message. As further clues and questions pile up, and the trip upends everything they thought they knew, Otto and Xavier begin to see connections to their own pasts, connections that now bind them together. A spellbinding tale from a star author, Peaces is about what it means to be seen by another person--whether it's your lover or a stranger on a train--and what happens when things you thought were firmly in the past turn out to be right beside you"--… (més)
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A gay, surrealist train-mystery. What more could one want? ( )
  eurydactyl | Jul 20, 2023 |
Set on a train called the Lucky Day, carrying only a few passengers, Otto and Xavier have embarked on a “non-honeymoon honeymoon” as a gift from Xavier’s aunt. The passengers are traveling with a mongoose (or two!). There is a woman living on the train who must prove her sanity prior to turning age thirty to receive an inheritance. There is a quasi-plot, a few mysteries, and several loosely connected segments that touch on topics such as mental health, relationships, and individuality.

This book reads like a fable. It contains many outlandish elements and gets increasingly bizarre. I enjoyed the setup and early chapters. As I read it, I felt a rhythmic quality in the language. Oyeyemi writes beautiful sentences. I just wish they had been woven into a more cohesive story. If it had stayed as playful as it started, I probably would have loved it, but it gets darker and more fragmented as it goes along. I struggled with this one, mostly due to my preference for more straight-forward storytelling.
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  Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |
Strange, interesting but difficult read. The story is told in part through pieces of flashbacks that sort of merge together by the end. I found myself looking back, trying to remember. Perhaps this was done intentionally as the characters themselves try to piece together their own stories.

For most of the book, I struggled to understand what was happening and what was important. The novel is about a pair of young sort-of-newlywed men who take a train journey where they are among a very short list of other passengers. However, I never felt particularly attached to any of the characters. Strange things abound. The end is an interesting concept, idea. I'm not sure that I like the novel, but it was different.

If you like stories where reality is bent to explore *ideas of reality*, you may enjoy this novel. ( )
  kparr | Apr 23, 2022 |
Not sure what just happened but it was fun while it lasted! ( )
  doryfish | Jan 29, 2022 |
Didn’t finish—I tired of the weirdness
  Bruyere_C | Dec 2, 2021 |
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I many times thought peace had come,
When peace was far away;
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
At centre of the sea,

And struggle slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
How many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.
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Have you ever had an almost offensively easy breakup? The kind where the person you've just broken ties with because of blah blah and blah gives you a slight shrug, a "Thanks for everything—especially your honesty," then walks away whistling Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well"?
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There were too many non-illegal matters that they did their utmost to cover up. Things like having vulgar tastes, or not being happy, or being stressed out. He knew that sooner or later they would make him just like them, hiding things instead of dealing with them.
I feel bad that this is what it is to be human, Otto. To journey that far on wings so painstakingly won, all those centuries of artistic dreams and scientific thought . . . only to arrive with bags and bags of waste. In the end, that's what we produce the most of, isn't it? And maybe it's what we're best at.
You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose favour you seek will even be there once you somehow put that path strewn with sensory confetti and emotional gore behind you.
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"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming touches, like ingredients for their favorite breakfast. They seem to be the only people onboard, until Otto discovers a secretive woman who issues a surprising message. As further clues and questions pile up, and the trip upends everything they thought they knew, Otto and Xavier begin to see connections to their own pasts, connections that now bind them together. A spellbinding tale from a star author, Peaces is about what it means to be seen by another person--whether it's your lover or a stranger on a train--and what happens when things you thought were firmly in the past turn out to be right beside you"--

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