Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

2020/050: Tentacle -- Rita Indiana (trans. Achy Obejas)
... 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 )

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