"the stars change"
Nov. 10th, 2013 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomMary Anne Mohanraj's SF novel "The Stars Change" came out last week. I am able to mention it only now due to limitations in my internet access, and because my personal computer was one thousand miles away.
"...Esther read more than was good for her, and though she'd never lived through a war herself, she had read the histories of her people; she knew a little of what they had endured. Her own life had been untouched by violence until this moment. When, a few hours ago, Suresh had turned to her, the both of them naked and slick with sweat, in their new-made marriage bed—when he told her what their pandit's wife had sent along the link, Esther had wanted to retreat. Just for a moment. But instead she had urged him to go, had insisted that she would come as well. That was what marriage was, after all—to be made one flesh, in one community..."
( http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-stars-change-mary-anne-mohanraj/1117323300?ean=2940148883333 )
"...Esther read more than was good for her, and though she'd never lived through a war herself, she had read the histories of her people; she knew a little of what they had endured. Her own life had been untouched by violence until this moment. When, a few hours ago, Suresh had turned to her, the both of them naked and slick with sweat, in their new-made marriage bed—when he told her what their pandit's wife had sent along the link, Esther had wanted to retreat. Just for a moment. But instead she had urged him to go, had insisted that she would come as well. That was what marriage was, after all—to be made one flesh, in one community..."
( http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-stars-change-mary-anne-mohanraj/1117323300?ean=2940148883333 )
