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2020/050: Tentacle -- Rita Indiana (trans. Achy Obejas)
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 08:37 am2020/050: Tentacle -- Rita Indiana (trans. Achy Obejas)
This short novel is set in three distinct time periods: the 2030s, when a trio of ecological disasters have rendered the ocean off Dominica a lifeless sludge, Chinese robots clear the streets of vagrants, and the president is advised by a santera, Esther Escudero, who is also the servant of the sea goddess Yemaya; the 1990s, when wealthy philanthropist Giorgio Menicucci hosts an artists' workshop and founds an institute of marine biology; and an indeterminate period in the 17th or 18th century, when buccaneers form a community on the coast of Hispaniola.
( mild spoilers )
... the cult of Olokun, the most mysterious of the orishas, about whom even her most cooperative sources had kept quiet. According to the letter, black Cubans called a certain marine creature Olokun. It could travel back in time, dude, very Lovecraftian. [loc. 1248]
This short novel is set in three distinct time periods: the 2030s, when a trio of ecological disasters have rendered the ocean off Dominica a lifeless sludge, Chinese robots clear the streets of vagrants, and the president is advised by a santera, Esther Escudero, who is also the servant of the sea goddess Yemaya; the 1990s, when wealthy philanthropist Giorgio Menicucci hosts an artists' workshop and founds an institute of marine biology; and an indeterminate period in the 17th or 18th century, when buccaneers form a community on the coast of Hispaniola.
( mild spoilers )
