Fable & The Verbivore

Episode 70: Let's talk about The Grace Year


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In this our first book club episode of 2021, Fable and the Verbivore unpack Kim Liggett’s The Grace Year.
Spoiler alert for this episode as we dissect some of the plot twists and the end of this book.
We highly recommend seeking out and reading the letter to the readers that Kim included in the Target exclusive edition, as it gives some great context around the meaning and the author’s intentions.
In this episode, we discuss how the extreme but honest brutality in this book reflects experiences that many young girls face while growing up, as well as how the world that she built explores unchallenged prejudices and injustice within our own society.
We dig into the complex characters she created and many stereotypes that the various individuals accept as truth and how she chooses to call out those beliefs and challenge them over time. We also talke about the many ways that symbols steeped in meaning play into this story - flowers, seeds, and growing things that are never solely what they appear to be at first glance.
Towards the end of the episode, we discuss some of our takeaways from this powerful and thought-provoking story: That we each can make a difference by using the voice we have, that by making a different choice from those that came before we can create positive change, and that hope however small is important. But also that we each individually can choose to be medicine in our world.
Kim Liggett writes mostly YA Horror and Thrillers. She has published five books: The Unfortunates, The Last Harvest, and the duology Salt and Blood and Heart of Ash. In 2019, it was announced thatThe Grace Year is in development to be made into a film. She is on instagram @kim2legit2quit and her website is http://www.kimliggett.com/.
Take care of one another! And keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!
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